 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 páginas
...historian of the Roman Empire. 1. 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... | |
 | 1807 - 772 páginas
...historian of the Roman empire. 1. From the Provincial Letters of Pascal, which almost every year 1-. have perused^ with new pleasure, I learned to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony, even on subjecbjof ecclesiastical solemnity. 2. The Li/e ot' Julian, by th.- Abbe de li tyleterie,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 páginas
...historian of the Roman empire. 1. 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 páginas
...fame to its enemies. Pascal is the first great name that draws it into notice. " From the Proiinciul Letters of Pascal," says Gibbon, " which almost every...masterpiece of logic, and the dry wit with which they are seasoned is admirable. " The Sorbonne," say they, " prefer censuring to replying; and, doubtless,... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1824 - 500 páginas
...Historian of the Roman Empire. 1. 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... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1824 - 500 páginas
...Historian of the Roman Empire. 1. 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 páginas
...historian of the Roman empire. 1. 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. . 2. The Life of Julian, by the abbé de la Bleterie,... | |
 | 1830 - 336 páginas
...historian of the Roman empire. 1. 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. 2. The Life of Julian, by the abb6 de la Bleterie, first... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1826 - 524 páginas
...Historian of the Roman Empire. 1. 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. 6?. 4to. ed. of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 páginas
...historian of the Roman empire. 1. 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. 2. The Life of Julian, by the Abbe de la Bleterie, first... | |
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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. 
