 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 pàgines
...had been allowed for a ferious revifal. I have prefumed to mark the moment of conception : I {hall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance....was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 3787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the laft lines of the laft page, in a fummer-houfe... | |
 | 1796 - 982 pàgines
...account of his Roman Hiftory as follows: — " I have preiumed m mark the moment of conception : I mnll now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance....was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, " • Ef.traOfrm Mr Gitkm't Cammta-flai £ui. " The IVth... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pàgines
...for a ferious revifal. 1 have prefumed to matk the moment of concep. tion: I fhall now comme<rorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of tleven and twelve, that I wrote the laft lines of the laft page, in £ fummer-houfe... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pàgines
...have prelumed, (fays he) to mark the moment of conception, 1 fliall now commemorate the hour of roy final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the z7th June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the lojl lrnes of tin lajl ffige,... | |
 | 1813 - 716 pàgines
...as " exhibiting marks of excessive vanity and conceit." Speaking of finishing his history he says: " It was on the day, or rather night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pàgines
...would be absurd to change, because it is personally characteristic, and of which no change could be an improvement. — " I have presumed to mark the moment...on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pàgines
...of Lausanne. I could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. , I have presumed to mark the moment of conception :...was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 pàgines
...which no change could be an improvement. — " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : 1 shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance....on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house... | |
 | 1849 - 802 pàgines
...(Lift, p. 198, 8vo edition.) Again, the wen-known description of the conclusion of his labours : — " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception:...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th Jnne 1787, between the hoars of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pàgines
...finished them at Lausanne, and thus singularly records their completion : — " I have presumed (says he) to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate...on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house... | |
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I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. 
