 | Edward Gibbon - 1781 - 392 páginas
...ftrike their tents the next morning, and begin their retreat. But as he rode round the walls, penfive, angry, and difappointed, he obferved a ftork, preparing...country. He feized, with the ready penetration of a ftatefman, this trifling incident, which chance had offered to fuperftition ; and exclaimed, in a loud... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1792 - 462 páginas
...ftrike their tents the next morning, and begin their retrest. But as he rode round the walls, penfive, angry, and difappointed, he obferved a ftork, preparing...her neft, in one of the towers, and to fly with her infanc family towards the country. He feized, with the ready penetration of a ftatefman, this trifling... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 474 páginas
...round the walls, penfive, angry, and difappointed, he obferved a itork preparing to leave her neil in one of the towers, and to fly with her infant family towards the country. He icized, with the ready penetration of a Itatefman, this trifling incident which chance had offered... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 446 páginas
...round the walls, pensive, angry, and disappointed, he observed a stork preparing to leave her nest, in one of the towers, and to fly with her infant family 'towards the country. He seized, with the ready penetration of a statesman, this trifling incident, which chance had offered... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1813 - 444 páginas
...tents the next morning, and begin their retreat. But as he rode round the walls, penfive, angry,and difappointed, he obferved a ftork, preparing to leave...country. He feized, with the ready penetration of a ftatefman,this triffing incident, which chance had offered to fuperftition ; and exclaimed, in a Moguls... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 páginas
...round the walls, pensive, angry, and disappointed, he observed a stork, preparing to leave her nest, in one of the towers, and to fly with her infant family towards the country. He seized, with the ready penetration of a statesman, this trifling incident, which chance had offered... | |
 | Richard Brookes - 1832 - 864 páginas
...rode round the wall, pensive, angry, and disappointed, he observed a stork preparing to leave her nest in one of the towers, and to fly, with her infant family, towards the country ; this he interpreted as an omen that those towers were devoted to impending ruin and solitude. The... | |
 | Richard Brookes - 1838 - 840 páginas
...rode round the wall, pensive, angry, and disappointed, he observed a stork preparing to leave her nest in one of the towers, and to fly. with her infant family, towards the country ; this he interpreted as an omen that those towers were devoted to impending ruin and solitude. The... | |
 | Richard Brookes - 1839 - 834 páginas
...round tue wall, pensive, angry, and disappointed, lie observed a stork preparing to leave her nest in one of the towers, and to fly, with her infant family, towards the country ; this he interpreted as an omen that those towers were devoted to impending ruin and solitude. The... | |
 | Richard Brookes - 1849 - 818 páginas
...rode round the wail, pensive, angry, and disappointed, he observed a stork preparing to leave her nest in one of the towers, and to fly, with her infant family, towards the country ; this he interpreted as an omen that those towers were devoted to impending ruin and solitude. The... | |
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But, as he rode round the walls, pensive, angry and disappointed, he observed a stork, preparing to leave her nest in one of the towers and to fly with her infant family towards the country. He seized with the ready penetration of a statesman this trifling... 
