| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...and the subject of the momentous contest was the union or separation of Great Britain and America. The eight sessions that I sat in parliament were a school of civil prudence, the hrst and most essential virtue of an historian. . The volume of my History, which had been somewhat... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...anil the subject of the momentous contest was the union or separation of Great Britain and America. The eight sessions that I sat in parliament were a...prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian." — Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works, vol. J, p. 146. " To assure his Majesty, that we receive,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...and the subject of the momentous contest was the union or separation of Great Britain and America. The eight sessions that I sat in parliament were a...prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian. The volume of my History, which had been somewhat delayed by the novelty and tumult of a... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...subject of the momentous contest wns the union or separation of Great Britain and America. The right sessions that I sat in parliament were a school of...prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian. The volume of my History, which had been somewhat delayed by the. novelty and tumult of... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...and the subject of the momentous contest was the union or separation of Great Britain and America. The eight sessions that I sat in parliament were a...prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian. The volume of my history, which had been somewhat delayed by the novelty and tumult of a... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...and the subject of the momentous contest was the union or separation of Great Britain and America. The eight sessions that I sat in parliament were a...civil prudence, the first and most essential virtue of a historian. The volume of my History, which had been somewhat delayed by tbe novelty and tumult of... | |
| Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...the subject of the momentous contest waa the union or separation of Great Britain and America./jThe eight sessions that I sat in parliament were a' school...prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian. ' The volume of my history, which had been somewhat delayed by the novelty and tumult of... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...and the subject of the momentous contest was the union or separation of Great Britain and America. The eight sessions that I sat in parliament were a...prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian. The volume of my history, which had been somewhat delayed by the novelty and tumult of a... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...and the subject of the momentous contest was the union or separation of Great Britain and America. The eight sessions that I sat in parliament were a...prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian. The volume of my History, which had been somewhat delayed by the novelty and tumult of a... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...and th« subject of the momentous contest was the union or separation of Great Britain and America. The eight sessions that I sat in parliament were a...prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian. The volume of my history, which had been somewhat delayed by the novelty and tumult of a... | |
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