 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 pàgines
...From the Provincial Letters of Pafcd, Which alrnoft every year I have perufed with nevV pleafure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony, even on fubjedls of ecclefiaftical foleinnity. 2. The Life of Julian* by the Abbe de la Bleterifr, firft introduced... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pàgines
...From the Provincial Letters of Pafcal, which almoft every year I have perufed with new pleafure, I learned to manage the weapon^ of grave and temperate irony, even on fubjects of eccfefiaftical folemnrty. Q. The Life of Julian, by the Abb£ de la Bleterie, firft introduced... | |
 | 1797 - 846 pàgines
...i. From the Provincial Letters of PalVal, which almoft every year I have pmifed with new pleafure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony, even on fabjeels of ecdeiufiica! folemnity. 2. The Lifeof Julian, by the Abbé de la Bletene, firft introduced... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pàgines
...From the Provincial Letters of Pah cat, which almoft every year I have perufed with nevr pleafure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony, even on fubjefts of ecclefiaftical foiemnity. 2. The Life of Julian, by the Abbe de la Blaterie, firft introduced... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 786 pàgines
...From the Provincial Letters of Pafcal, which almofl every year I have perufed with new pleafurc, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony, even on fubjtfts of ecclefiaflical foiemnity, 2. 1 he Life of Julian, by the Abbe dela Bletrric, iirit introduced... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pàgines
...From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost even,' year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity. 2. The Life of Julian, by the Abbe de la Bleterie, first introduced me to the man and the times ; and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1813 - 532 pàgines
...Hiftory of Naples, as having remotely contributed to form the hiftorian of the Roman empire. FrdmPafcal, he tells us, that he learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony, even on fubjects of ecclefiaftical folemnity; forgetting that irony, in every (hape, is beneath the dignity... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 pàgines
...science of " hardening the mind by the hahit of rigid demonstration, so destructive of thn VOL. XV. GG finer feelings of moral evidence, which must determine...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity, forgettitig that irony in every shape is beneath the dignity of the historical style, and subjects... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pàgines
...From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost everv year ! have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity. 2. The Life of Julian, by the Abbé de la Bleterie. first introduced me to the man and the times ;... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1824 - 500 pàgines
...From the provincial letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate...irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity." Gibbon's Memoirs of his own Life, p. 67. 4to. ed. of his Miscell. Works, vol. I. tendency to promote... | |
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From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity. 
