 My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and...  The Maxims of Francis Guicciardini - Page 49by Francesco Guicciardini - 1845 - 158 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francesco Guicciardini - 1845 - 214 pages
...same great opportunity doth twice come ; because there is no Man so little worth, but Macbiaveltt. 48 that, at the second time, he will know how to use...fortune. Memoirs of my Life and Writings, chap. ii. 49 42. Mr. Gibbon. . . . I think this may be the truth, that Fortune is sole arbitress of one half... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 pages
...are Mrs. Hutchison's effusions of gratitude. The same sentiment is expressed by Gibbon, who says, " My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage or...in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honorable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune." — Gibbon's Memoirs. Coleridge in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 pages
...hundred and thirty-seven ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, Esq. and of Judith Porten.* My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...hundred and thirty-seven ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, Esq. and of Judith Porten.* My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...OS, in the year 1737 ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, esq., and of Judith Porten. My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in au age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently... | |
 | 1881 - 704 pages
...historian, but their respective ground» of satisfaction are widely different. " My lot," says Gibbon, " might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant," he omits to say or a " heathen." He reflects on " the bounty of Nature"; Mrs. Gilbert, religiously... | |
 | Douglas William Jerrold - 1853 - 328 pages
...confessions" of the late " Lion :" — they shall stand unmixed " with baser matter." THE COCKNEY. "Mr lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant," says the grateful Gibbon ; "nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast... | |
 | 1853 - 774 pages
...fixed hia existence •when and where it did, attended by so many advantages. " My lot," says he, " might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant; nor din Irefleet without pleasure on the bounty of nature (he should have said Providence), which cast... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1853 - 330 pages
...confessions" of the late " Lion :" — they shall stand unmixed " with baser matter." THE COCKNEY. "Mr lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant," says the grateful Gibbon ; " nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 468 pages
...and thirty-seven ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, Esq., and of Judith Porten.i0 My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune. From my birth I have enjoyed the right of primogeniture ; but I was succeeded by five brothers and... | |
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