Gibbon.Areflectionis attributed to the illustrious historian Edward Gibbon, which those who are capable of giving it just value ought more frequently to apply.“My lot,” he says, “might have been that of a peasant, a slave, or a savage; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.”
Gibbon.Areflectionis attributed to the illustrious historian Edward Gibbon, which those who are capable of giving it just value ought more frequently to apply.“My lot,” he says, “might have been that of a peasant, a slave, or a savage; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.”
Areflectionis attributed to the illustrious historian Edward Gibbon, which those who are capable of giving it just value ought more frequently to apply.
“My lot,” he says, “might have been that of a peasant, a slave, or a savage; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.”