 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoy- 10 ment, 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 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." Gibbon's fame rests almost exclusively on his " History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,"... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1900 - 392 pages
...pressing on, filled with "the love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, and supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure." White Horse Ledge, Echo Lake, and part ol Moat Mountain, Notth Conway. WHITE HORSE CLIFF, NORTH CONWAY,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1900 - 400 pages
...pressing on, filled with "the love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, and supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure." White Horse Ledge, Echo Lake, and part ot Moat Mountain, North Con way. WHITE HORSE CLIFF, NORTH CONWAY,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1900 - 398 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.5 The original soil has been highly... | |
 | William George Waters - English literature - 1906 - 342 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... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1907 - 394 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. The original soil has been highly improved by labour and manure. . . . These enjoyments would be tasteless... | |
 | Anna Robeson Brown Burr - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1909 - 518 pages
...career, dwells on his happiness: "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." Now Gibbon is classed by M. Fouillfe among the lymphatics — temperaments incapable of the higher... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1911 - 488 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... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - Authorship - 1911 - 444 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... | |
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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. 
