 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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 ra1 " This be one's brazen wall, to feel no consciousness of guilt, nor grow pale through misconduct."... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 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 ra1 " This be one's brazen wall, to fee] no consciousness of guilt, nor grow pale through misconduct."... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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 ra1 " This oe one's brazen wall, to feel no consciousness of guilt, nor grow pale through misconduct."... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 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 - Church history - 1916 - 1006 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... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - English prose literature - 1923 - 290 pages
...great history were a source to Gibbon, not of fatigue, but of contentment, and he says of himself : " The love of study supplies each day, each hour, with...perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure." CHAPTER XXXII JAMES BOSWELL THE character of James Boswell has often been subjected to an undeserved... | |
 | George Carver - American literature - 1926 - 504 pages
...deserving men? "The love of study," says Gibbon, "a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure." If conversation lag I find my friend is dull; but if I take up a book which I know to be full of inspiration... | |
 | Michael G. Kammen - Art - 1987 - 364 pages
...after his death. "The love of study," he wrote, "a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure." Write on, Mr. Gibbon. Each of the essays in this volume is introduced by a headnote that explains its... | |
 | Frank Cioffi - Philosophy - 1998 - 328 pages
...corrected by philosophy or lime. 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... | |
 | Erin Gruwell - Education - 2007 - 808 pages
...GAMPOPA, TIBETAN RELIGIOUS LEADER 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. —EDWARD GIBBON, IN HIS BOOK MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS (1869) Alexander Pope, finding little... | |
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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. 
