 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - Страниц: 488
...with a browner shade the evening of life. Autobiography THE COMPLETION OF THE H1STORV I have presumed to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the ayth of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - Страниц: 754
...indignation or curiosity has long since subsided in pure and placid indifference. ... I have presumed to mark the moment of conception: I shall now commemorate...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 2yth of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1913 - Страниц: 494
...I could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed for a serious revisal. I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate...final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, on the 2-j'h of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - Страниц: 490
...the reflection of the man of fifty. "I have presumed to mark the moment of conception," he wrote ; "I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - Страниц: 472
...the reflection of the man of fifty. "I have presumed to mark the moment of conception," he wrote ; "I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - Страниц: 1006
...could now wish that a pause, an interval, had been allowed " for a serious revisal. " I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall " now commemorate...deliverance. It was on " the day, or rather night, of the zyth of June, 1787. between the " hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the "... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - Страниц: 264
...unconscious of any alterations in the moral or physical government of the world. Ibid. THE DECLINE AND FALL IT was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last line of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - Страниц: 290
...of noble and affecting simplicity, speaks of the conclusion of his life's great work at Lausanne : " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last line of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. " After laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
 | Henry Robinson Shipherd - 1926 - Страниц: 380
...things in their proper relations to one another. (Quoted by Bainton, 231.) EDWARD GIBBON I have presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate...deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 2yth of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - 1928 - Страниц: 492
...until October, 1772, it was a long, long 'pull' that was over when he laid down his pen here on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, after having written ' the last lines of the last page in a summer house in my garden. After laying... | |
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I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. 
