 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...enthusiasm, and the gentleness of his manners invited friendship. 'I n'lmired,' ' says Mr. Gibbon, attractive character, with all the softness and simplicity of a child: no human being ever was more... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 pages
...free and private society.2 He seemed to feel, and even 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 1 Me'moire Secret de la... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...free and private society.2 He seemed to feel, and even 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 1 Me'moire Secret de la... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 pages
...free and private society.2 He seemed to feel7"and even 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 1 Me'moire Secret de la... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...free and private society.2 He seemed to feel, and even 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 1 Me"moire Secret de la... | |
 | Johann Baptist von Weiss - World history - 1894 - 696 pages
...168. ^Gibbon — Lite and letters, p. 114, Schreiben Dom 4. October 1788, p. 102 — |d)HÍbt Don gor; „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... | |
 | William Roberts - Bibliomania - 1895 - 380 pages
...the value of the odd volume up to £3 3s. Gibbon, writing in his ' Autobiography ' of Fox, says, ' I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child,' an opinion which he might have modified... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1896 - 466 pages
...freo and private society. He seemed to feel and even 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1896 - 540 pages
...free and private society. He seemed to feel and even 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...free and private society. He seemed to feel, and even 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... | |
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He seemed to feel, and even 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... 
