 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...taken 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 σελίδες
...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.... | |
 | 1849 - 802 σελίδες
...taken 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,... | |
 | 1823 - 592 σελίδες
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my history, the life 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... | |
 | 1823 - 592 σελίδες
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." The acacias still flourish, as does the weeping willow which he planted, and I need not add, that the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 σελίδες
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." The acacias still flourish, as does the weeping willow which he planted, and I need not add, that the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 σελίδες
...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.... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 σελίδες
...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." Gibbons Miscellaneous Works, vol. ip 255. Gibbon's time, however, was in general most exactly appropriated... | |
 | 1830 - 336 σελίδες
...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.... | |
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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... 
