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" The style shall be simple and familiar : but style is the image of character ; and the habits of correct writing may produce, without labour or design, the appearance of art and study. My own amusement is my motive, and will be my reward ; and if these... "
Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever ... - Página 1
1830
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Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and ..., Volumen1

Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 páginas
...the fole recommendation of this perfonal narrative. Theftyle fhall be fimple and familiar : but ftyle is the image of character; and the habits of correct writing may produce, without labor or defign , the appearance of art and ftudy. My own amufement is my motive , and will be my reward...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His ..., Volumen1

Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 páginas
...more serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. The style shall be simple and familiar : but style is the image of character...sheets are communicated to some discreet and indulgent friencls, they will be secreted from the public eye till the author shall be removed beyond the reach...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, Esq, Volumen1

Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 páginas
...serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. The style shali be siirple and familiar: but style is the image of character;...labour or design, the appearance of art and study. Rly own amusement is my motive, and will be my reward ; and if these sheets are communicated to some...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumen6

Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 páginas
...narrative. The »lj le ahull he simple and familiar: but style is the linage of character; and tbe habits of correct writing may produce without labour...and indulgent friends, they will be secreted from tbe public eye (ill the author shall be removed beyond the reach of criticism or ridicule. A lively...
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The Life of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Selections from His Correspondence, and ...

Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 páginas
...more serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. The style shall be simple and familiar : but style is the image of character...shall be removed beyond the reach of criticism or ridicule.1 1 This passage is found in one only of the six sketches, and in that which seems to have...
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The Auto-biography of Edward Gibbon, Esq: Illustrated from His Letters, with ...

Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 páginas
...more serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. The style shall be simple and familiar ; but style is the image of character...the habits of correct writing may produce, without labor or design, the appearance of art and study. My own amusement is my motive, and will be my reward...
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Autobiography: Illus. from His Letters, with Occasional Notes and Narratives

Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 páginas
...more serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. The style shall be simple and familiar ; but style is the image of character...the habits of correct writing may produce, without labor or design, the appearance of art and study. My own amusement is my motive, and will be my reward...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumen1

Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 468 páginas
...more serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. The style shall be simple and familiar : but style is the image of character...shall be removed beyond the reach of criticism or ridicule.i A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with ..., Volumen1

Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 páginas
...more serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. The style shall be simple and familiar : but style is the image of character ; and the habite of correct writing may produce, without labour or design, the appearance of art and study. My...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volumen5;Volumen68

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 páginas
...more serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. The style shall be simple and familiar ; but style is the image of character,...the habits of correct writing may produce without labor or design the appearance of art and study. My own amusement is my motive, and will be my reward...
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