 I returned to Edinburgh in 1769 very opulent (for I possessed a revenue of 1000/. a year), healthy, and though somewhat stricken in years, with the prospect of enjoying long my ease, and of seeing the increase of my reputation.  The Quarterly Review - Σελίδα 991846Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Robert Bisset - 636 σελίδες
...declining. I returned to Edinburgh in 1769, very opulent, (for I possessed a revenue of loool. a-vear) healthy, and though somewhat stricken in years, with...ease, and of seeing the increase of my reputation.' During the remainder of his life nothing happened that he esteemed of sufficient importance to mention... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 σελίδες
...declining. . I returned to Edinburgh in 1769, very opulent (for I possessed a revenue of £1000 a year), healthy and though somewhat stricken in years, with...ease, and of seeing the increase of my reputation." . • One of the most remarkable transactions in Mr. Hume's life, was his dispute with Rousseau, in... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 540 σελίδες
...declining. I returned to Edinburgh in 1769, very opulent (for I possessed a revenue of 1000/. a year) healthy, and though somewhat stricken in years, with...prospect of enjoying long my ease, and of seeing the inerease of my reputation. IN spring 1775 I was struck with a disorder in my bowels, which at first... | |
 | 1814 - 538 σελίδες
...returned to Edinburgh in 1769, " very opulent," he says, " for he possessed a revenue of lOOOl. a year, healthy, and, though somewhat stricken in years, with the prospect of enjoying long his ease." In the spring of 1775, he was struck with a disorder in his bowels ; which, though it gave... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 540 σελίδες
...returned to Edinburgh in 1769, "very opulent," he says, " for he possessed a revenue of looo/. a year, healthy, and, though somewhat stricken in years, with the prospect of enjoying long his ease." In the spring of 1775, he was struck with a disorder in his bowels ; which, though it gave... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett - 1825 - 480 σελίδες
...declining. I returned to Edinburgh in 1769 very opulent (for I possessed a revenue of 1000/. a year), healthy, and though somewhat stricken in years, with...ease, and of seeing the increase of my reputation. In spring 1775 I was struck with a disorder in my bowels, which at first gave me no alarm, but has... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 508 σελίδες
...declining. I returned to Edinburgh in 1769, very opulent (for I possessed a revenue of 1000/. a year), healthy, and, though somewhat stricken in years, with...ease, and of seeing the increase of my reputation. In spring 1775, 1 was struck with a disorder in my bowels, which at first gave me no alarm, but has... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 828 σελίδες
...in the rising New Town ; "very opulent,"he says in his Life," (for I possessed a revenue of £1000 a-year) healthy, and though somewhat stricken in years,...ease, and of seeing the increase of my reputation." And all this, and more, was realized. In vain Madame de Boufflers beckoned him to Paris. He walked... | |
 | David Hume - 1841 - 642 σελίδες
...declining. I returned to Edinburgh in 1769, very opulent, (for I possessed a revenue of 1000£ a year,) healthy, and, though somewhat stricken in years, with the prospect of enjoying long my ease, and of seeiug the increase of my reputation. In spring, 1775, I was struck with a disorder in my bowels, which... | |
 | 1846 - 608 σελίδες
...In 1769 he returned to Edinburgh, " very opulent," he says, " for I possessed a revenue of .£1000 a-year, healthy, and, though somewhat stricken in...ease, and of seeing the increase of my reputation." His friends in France did what they could to make him live there. He, however, returned to his old... | |
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