 But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must...  The New Monthly Magazine - Seite 1041823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 Seiten
...the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 542 Seiten
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious, 1 will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition * * Memolrci Secretes de 1st Cour... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 Seiten
...the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 Seiten
...the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 Seiten
..." idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition... | |
 | 1817 - 494 Seiten
...idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short and precarious. I wfll add two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of... | |
 | 1849 - 802 Seiten
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion; and that, whatever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." — (/.:/'', p. 255, 8vo edition.) Hume's account of his own life is a model of perspicuity, modesty,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 Seiten
...waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame....acacias still flourish, as does the weeping willow wlûch he planted, and I need not add, that the scene remains the same. It had changed, however, more... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 Seiten
...recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon bumbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by...planted, and I need not add, that the scene remains the same. It had changed, however, more than once for Gibbon. When he first visited, or rather was... | |
 | 1823 - 592 Seiten
...of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride wa« soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over...of the historian must be short and precarious." The acdcias still flourish, as does the weeping willow which he planted, and I need not add, that the scene... | |
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