 | Edward Gibbon - 1814
...common success. Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify my application. The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more...but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.* I shall soon enter into the period which,... | |
 | 1829
...historian must be short and precarious.' The present Us. fleeting moment, the past is no more, and the prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last; but the Ia\vs of probability* so I rue in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about tifreen years.... | |
 | 1836
...hope, tinged with a browner shade the evening of life." " The present," he elsewhere acknowledges, " is a fleeting moment, the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful." His attempts to persuade himself that death was distant, are apparent from the following passage :—"... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 848 pages
...common success. Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify my application. The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more...but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.* I shall soon enter into the period which,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 848 pages
...of и The king and the philosopher may speak for themselves ; for my part I do not euv> old woman. The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more ; and our [»rrepect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be '")' last : but the laws of probability,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1839 - 455 pages
...chap.l. success. Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify my application. The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more;...but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years. 22 I shall soon enter into the period which,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 357 pages
...common success. Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify my application. The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more;...but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years *'. " Mr. d'Alembert relates, that as he... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840
...common success. Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify my application. The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more;...but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years •'. ''" Mr. d'Alembert relates, that as... | |
 | James Smith - 1840
...Gibbon (how I ramble!) does not go the length of my Wormwood. He expresses himself as follows :—" The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more,...and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the... | |
 | James Smith - 1840
...Gibbon (how I ramble!) does not go the length of my Wormwood. He expresses himself as follows:—" The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more,...and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the... | |
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is equal to my wishes. . . . The present is a fleeting moment : the past is no more : and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general, so 
