 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...mother ; but in her lowest distress she maintained a spotless reputation, and a dignified hehaviour. A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...a hard subsistence for henelf and her mother ; but in her lowest distress she maintained a spotless reputation, and a dignified behaviour. A rich banker...a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...hard subsistence for herself and her mother j but in her lowest distress she maintained a spotless reputation, and a dignified behaviour. A rich banker...a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...lier ; but in her lowest distress she maintained a spotless reputation, and a dignified behaviour. Л rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this in«.- notable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided into friendship and esteem. A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure; and, in the capital of taste and luxury, she... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...hard subsistence for herself and her mother ; but in her lowest distress she maintained a spotless reputation, and a dignified behaviour. A rich banker...a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...hard subsistence for herself and her mother . but in her lowest distress she maintained a spotless reputation, and a dignified behaviour. A rich banker...a citizen of Geneva. had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself; and my love subsided into friendship and esteem. A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure; and, in the capital of taste and luxury, she... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...hard subsistence for herself and her mother ; but in her lowest distress she maintained a spotless reputation, and a dignified behaviour. A rich banker...a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Literature - 1840 - 386 pages
...hard subsistence, for herself and her mother; but in her lowest distress she maintained a spotless reputation, and a dignified behaviour. A rich banker...a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure; and in the capital of taste and luxury she... | |
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A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted the temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence. 
