 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1869 - 462 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Authors - 1872 - 514 pages
...Gibbon's complacent avowal : " The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties," any more than of appetite for the food... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1877 - 238 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | English authors - 1880 - 178 pages
...EXHAUSTLESS SOURCE OF PLEASURE. — The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure. (Memoirs, p. 302.) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. [Born, 1770. Entered St. John's College, Cambridge, 1787. Took... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. ' Since I have escaped from the long... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...Shepherd and the Philosopher. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, ؽ * j. GIBBON — .Uemo/rs. Wm. D. Howell's Edition. P. -220. As turning the logs will make a dull fire... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...we discover our ignorance. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure. One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all those... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...been corrected by ly or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoypplies 54 2d Wu 6 U: (|@L L$ 2DP ȟ eT "Q. r E Te # y ) : and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. • I have escaped from the long perils... | |
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The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. 
