| 1804 - 496 páginas
...sentence or the stroke of death, he composed in the tower of Pavia the Consolation ofPhilosof.fni ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarisim of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide whom he had so long invoked... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 páginas
...or the stroke of death, he composed in the tower of Pavia the Consolation of Philosophy ; a Agolden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully,...which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the-times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide whom he had so long invoked at Rome... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 446 páginas
...sentence or the stroke or death, ' Dl ^ he composed in the tower of Pavia the Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times ftnd the situation of the author. The celestial guide whom he had so long invoked at Rome and Athens<... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 454 páginas
...the stroke of death, A- D. 5*4. jje cornpose<im the tower of Pavia the Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the time1; and the situation of the author. The celestial guide whom he had so long invoked at Rome and... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 456 páginas
...or the stroke AD 52 . Q£ (jeatj^ ne composed in the tower of Pavia the Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...of the times, and the situation of the author. The celestial guide whom he had so long invoked at Rome and Athens, now condescended to illumine his dungeon,... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1823 - 580 páginas
...rendered in prose.10 5 See his Div. Naturae, p. 32. 34. 113. and 174. Gibbon calls the book of Boetius " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato, or Tully." Hist. Decl. vol.iv. p. 38. « Ethel. Hist. p. 847. * Malm. p. 45. and 248. 8 Henry de Silgrave; MSS.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 páginas
...of death, he InTdea'th, composed in the tower of Pavia the Consolation o/" A .0.524. Philosophy; & golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide whom he had so long invoked at Rome and Athens now condescended to illumine his dungeon,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 522 páginas
...Pavia the Consolation of Philosophy; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or TulTy, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism...of the times and the situation of the author. The celestial guide whom he bad so long invoked at Rome and Athens, now condescended to illumine his dungeon,... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1836 - 626 páginas
...11 , the preface 5 See his Div. Natura, p. 32. 34. 113. and 174. Gibbon calls the book of Boetius " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully." Hist. Decl. vol. iv. p. 38. 6 Ethel. Hist. p. 847. 7 Malm. p. 45. and 248. s Henry de Silgrave; MSS.... | |
| David Nutt - 1837 - 774 páginas
...637*— • Idem liber, ex Nova llecensione et cum Prolegomenis Thomœ Obbarii, 8vo. 2s. Jente, 1843 " A golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit, from the barbarism of the times and situation of the author. The sage who could artfully combine in the same work (each moment expecting... | |
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