Quote #17
The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
More from Edward Gibbon
- Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
- It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vesp…
- I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
- On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation witho…
- I saw and loved.
- I was never less alone than when by myself. 6
- It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.
- Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: The first from his teachers; the second, more personal and importan…