 | Curiosities and wonders - 1796 - 622 pages
...;pofe aay premature decay of the mind or body; but 1 muft. * relu&antlyiobferve, that two caufes, the abbreviation of time, ' and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner * {hade the evening of life.' When .our editor, Lord Sheffield, firft undertook to prepare Mr. Gibbon's... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...fuppofe any premature decay of the mind or body ; but 1 muft reluctantly obferve that two caufes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner fhade the evening of life. W HEN I firft undertook to prepare Mr. Gibbon's Memoirs for theprcfs, I... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pages
...any premature decay of the mind or the body ; but 1 muft, relitfiautly, obferve, that two caufes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge, with a browner fliade, the evening of life." Here the Memoirs of Mr. Gibbon end — and the period of their termination... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...nor saw me, and whom I shall neither ' know nor see." Book xiii. ch. 1. observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will...always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life. ....Mr. Gibbon returned to England in June 1793. It appears by the following Letters to Lord Sheffield,... | |
 | 1807 - 682 pages
...afflictions and troubles. In his memoirs he says, " I must reluctantly observe,that two causes, the abbreviation of time and the failure of hope will...always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life." This is the gloomy sentiment of an atheist, whose views terminate with this world, who considers himself... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1807 - 612 pages
...and trouhles. In his memoirs he says, " I must reluctantly ohserve, that two causes, the ahhreviation of time and the failure of hope will always tinge with a hrowner shade the evening of life." This is the gloomy sentiment of an atheist, whose views terminate... | |
 | Granville Penn - Christian life - 1812 - 332 pages
...experience of life, in the following warning sentence : " I must reluctantly observe, that " two causes, the abbreviation of time, and " the failure of hope, will...tinge, with " a browner shade, the evening of life*." 115. If this sentence is delivered as a general proposition, applicable to all mankind; and meaning... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...suppose any premature decay of the mind or body; but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.t * See Buffon. t The proportion of a part to the whole is the only standard by •which we can... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...suppose any premature decay of the mind or body ; but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.J * Mr Baflon, from our disregard of the possibility of death within the four-and-twenty hours,... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...suppose any premature decay of the mind or body j but I nrast reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.J * Mr Bufibn, from our disregard uf the possibility of death within the four-and-twenty hours,... | |
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I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life. 
