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" His choice is approved by the elegant historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. "
The natural history of infidelity and superstition in contrast with ... - Page 433
by Joseph Esmond Riddle - 1852
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The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, Volume 28

1796 - 622 pages
...our duties * fulfilled, our fame and fortune eftablifhed on a folid bafis. In * private converfation, that great and amiable man added the ' weight of his...be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and c many other men of letters. I am far more Jnclined to em* brace: than difpute this comfortable doctrine....
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness...duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and foftune established on a solid basis. J In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 8

Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid liasisf . In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, Esq, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happmess to the mature season in which our passions are supposed...our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. f In private conversation that great and amiable " man added the weight of his own experience ; and...
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The Georgian Era: Voyagers and travellers. Philosophers and men of science ...

1834 - 602 pages
...of others would fail to do so hereafter. After quoting the opinion of Fontenelle, who, he observes, fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our dutiea fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fume and fortune established on a solid basis, he says,...
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Juvenal

Juvenal - 1837 - 306 pages
...experience of the sage Fontenelle : his choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, Buffon, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season...; and this autumnal felicity might be exemplified by the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and ...

Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 882 pages
...selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.-f In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and ...

Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in wliich our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and ...

Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season hi which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our...
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The Life of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Selections from His Correspondence, and ...

Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pages
...selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.23 In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience...
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