| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 sayfa
...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... | |
| 1804 - 496 sayfa
...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 - 1806 - 446 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...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...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 and Athens, now... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1823 - 580 sayfa
...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.... | |
| 1826 - 590 sayfa
...extraordinary excellence and elegance; itwasthe great classic «f the middle ages, and has been justly styled " a golden volume, not unworthy of the leisure of Plato...incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times, and the situation of the author." The patriot and scholar laments in prose and verse alternately his imprisonment... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 sayfa
...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...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 and Athens now... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 522 sayfa
...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... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1836 - 626 sayfa
...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.... | |
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