 ... original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another, till I had ranged round the circle of Oriental history. Before I was sixteen I had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians, the...  The Works of Edward Gibbon - Página xiiipor Edward Gibbon - 1906Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 páginas
...be learned in .English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks ; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of D'Herbelot, and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulpharagius. Such vague and multifarious reading could not teach me to think, to write, or to act;... | |
 | 1807 - 772 páginas
...be learned in Kngli-h of th? Arabs and Persians, thcTartarsand Turks; and the same ardour urged roe to guess at the French of D'Herbelot, and to' construe the barbarous Latin of Focock's Abulfaragious. Such vague and multifarious rending could not teach me to think, towri:c, or... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 542 páginas
...be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks ; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of d'Herbelot, and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius. Such vague and multifarious reading could not teach me to think, to write, or to acl ; and the only... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 páginas
...could be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of D'Herbelot, and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius. Such vague and multifarious reading could not teach me to think, to write, or to act ; and the only... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 páginas
...could be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of D'Herbelot, and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius. Such vague and multifarious reading could not teach me to think, to write, or to act ; and the only... | |
 | 1830 - 336 páginas
...be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks ; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of D'Herbelot, and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius. Such vague and multifarious reading could not teach me to think, to write, or to act ; and the only... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 páginas
...be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks ; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of D'Herbelot, and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius. Such vague and multifarious reading could not teach me to think, to write, or to act ; and the only... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 páginas
...English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks ; whilst ' the same ardour ' had urged him to guess at the French of D'Herbelot, and to ' construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius.' Geofraphy and chronology were not forgotten. Cellarius, Wells, tranchius, Helvicus, Anderson, Usher,... | |
 | 1839 - 764 páginas
...in English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks; whilst 'the same ardour ' had urged him to guess at the French of D'Herbelot, and to ' construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius.' Geography and chronology were not forgotten. Cullarius, Wells, Stranchius, Helvicus, Anderson, Usher,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 páginas
...be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks ; and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of D'Herbelot, and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius. Such vague and multifarious reading could not teach me to think, to write, or to act ; and the only... | |
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