 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 Seiten
...idea that I had taken an everlasting li-ave 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.... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1866 - 228 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." From Lausanne to Neufchatel there is little to detain the tourist. The railway winds round the lower... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1866 - 248 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." From Lausanne to NeufchAtel there is little to detain the tourist. The railway • winds round the... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1866 - 636 Seiten
...I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whati-ocver might he the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.' Voltaire, previously to his settling at Ferney, liv.xl at Mourepos, a little distance from Lausanne,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 Seiten
...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." From Lausanne Gibbon again returned to England for a short time, but he came back again to Switzerland,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1868 - 384 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....future date of my history, the life of the historian might be short and precarious."* Nor is Pope's reflection less affecting. " The morning after my exit,"... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 506 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.... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1869 - 360 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....future date of my history, the life of the historian might be short and precarious/'f Nor is Pope's reflection less affecting. " The morning after my exit,"... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 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.... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1869 - 572 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 must be short and precarious." Gibbon was born in the year 1737, at Putney in Surrey The delicate boy received much of his early education... | |
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