 seemed to feel and to envy the happiness of my situation, while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt...  Lives of Men of Letters of the Time of George III. - Stran 403avtor: Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 438 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 strani
...conversation. He seemed to feel, and even to envy the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powress of; a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive...no human being was ever more perfectly exempt from tile taint of malevolence, vanity or falsehood/' From Switzerland he proceeded to Italy, and he had... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 714 strani
...enthusiasm, and the gentleness of his manners invited friendship. ' I admired,' says Mr. Gibbon, ' the powers of a superior man, as they are blended, in his attractive character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child ; no human being was evermore free from any taint of malignity,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 strani
...Memoire Secret de la Conr de Berlin, par Mirabeau. t See Letter in the Continuation, October 1, 1788. happiness of my situation; while I admired the powers...from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood. My transmigration from London to Lausanne could not be effected without interrupting the course of... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 strani
...roused enthusiasm,, and the gentleness of his manners invited friendship. "I admired," says Mr Gibbon," the powers of a superior man as they are blended, in his attractive character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child ; no human being was ever more free from any taint of malignity,... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - 1818 - 216 strani
...enthusiasm, and the gentleness of his manners invited friendship. " I admired,'' says Mr. Gibbon, " the powers of a superior man as they are blended, in his attractive character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child ; no human being was ever more free from any taint of malignity,... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - 1820 - 526 strani
...to his political opinions : "I admired (says Mr. Gibbon in his Private Memoirs) the powers of this superior man, as they are blended in his attractive...the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood.'' He was passionately fond of literature, and especially of poetry, of which he left some specimens of... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - 1820 - 692 strani
...to his political opinions, " I admired (says Mr. Gibbon in his Private Memoirs) the powers of this superior man, as they are blended in his attractive...from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood." He was passionately fond of literature, and especially of poetry, of which he left some specimens of... | |
 | Andrew Wilkie - 1824 - 348 strani
...enthusiasm, and the gentleness of his manners invited friendship. " I admired," says Mr. Gibbon, " the powers of a superior man, as they are blended, in his attractive character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child: no human being was ever more free from any taint of malignity,... | |
 | 1824 - 878 strani
...invited friendship. ' I admired,' says Mr Gibbon, after describing a day passed with him at Lausanne, ' the powers of a superior man, as they are blended, in his attractive character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child : no human being was ever more tree from any taint of malignity,... | |
 | 1824 - 844 strani
...invited friendship. 'I admired,' says Mr Gibbon, after describing a day passed with him at Lausanne, ' the powers of a superior man, as they are blended, in his attractive character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child : no human being was ever more free from any taint of malignity,... | |
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