 | 1767 - 572 Seiten
...the command of a large library ||. ' I then formed the plan of writing the Hi (lory of England; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the acceffion of the Houfe of Stuart, an epoch when, I thought, the mifreprefentations... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1777 - 584 Seiten
...gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the Hiftory of England ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with theacccffion of the Houfe of Stuart, an epoch when, I thought, the mifreprefentadons... | |
 | David Hume, Adam Smith - 1777 - 138 Seiten
...gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the Hiftory of England ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the acceffion of the Houfe of Stuart, an epoch when, I thought, the mifreprefentations... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1777 - 590 Seiten
...gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the Hiftory of England ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the acceflion of the Houfe of Stuart, an epoch when, I thought,'the mifreprefentations... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1779 - 734 Seiten
...gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing t)A tiiftory of England; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a- narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the acctffion of the Houfe of Stuart, an epoch when, I thought, the mifreprefentations... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1789 - 742 Seiten
...refulting from it, muft, we think, occafion an anticlimax in the importance of the fubjedt. The Abbe pleads the example of Mr. Hume, who began his Hiftory...different races of kings, as by the gradations made in civilizatwn and manners. The laft article of this part of the work relates to a difpute, referred to... | |
 | David Hume - 1789 - 536 Seiten
...gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the Hiftory of England; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the acceffion of the houfe of Stuart, an epoch when I thought the mifreprefentations... | |
 | David Hume - 1789 - 452 Seiten
...gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the Hiftory of England ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the acceflion of the Houfe of Stuart , an epoch when, I thought, the mifreprefentations... | |
 | 1777 - 750 Seiten
...the command of a Lrge library. I then formed the plan of writing the Hiftory of England ; but beinp frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1 7 со уелгэ, I coinmenrc-d with the arccáioú uf the houfi uf Stuart ; an epoch when, I thought,... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1799 - 390 Seiten
...command of a large library. He formed about this period the plan of writing THE HISTOIY OF ENGLAND ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of feven* teen hundred years, he commenced with the acceffion of the Houfe tf Stuart ; an epoch when he thought... | |
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Advocates chose me their Librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the History of England... 
