 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 Age of Johnson (1748-1798) - Σελίδα 130των Thomas Seccombe - 1902 - 366 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1844 - 576 σελίδες
...and a sober melancholy was spread onr my mind, by the Idea lhal I had taken an everlasting 1еате of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever...be the future date of my history, the life of the abtorian must be short and precarious/' When Inglii vieited Lausanne a few years ago, the library of... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 σελίδες
...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 fate of my history, the life of the historian might be short and precarious." There is something in... | |
 | 1849 - 600 σελίδες
...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."-Lt/«, p. 255, 8vo edition. Hume's account of his own life is a model of perspicuity,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 σελίδες
...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,...life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or even five quartos. 1.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 σελίδες
...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,...life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or even five quartos. 1.... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 σελίδες
...the idea that I had taken 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." (' Life,' ch. x.) He returned for a few months to London, in order to superintend the publication of... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 σελίδες
...the idea that I had taken 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." (" Life," ch. x.) He returned for a few months to London, in order to superintend the publication of... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 σελίδες
...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,...life of the historian must be short and precarious." Gibbon's early education was defective, although his amount of general reading before he went to Oxford... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1848 - 394 σελίδες
...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,...life of the historian must be short and precarious." It was a natural sadness. Men of the world often outlive the sources of their enjoyment ; and at best... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 σελίδες
...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 fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." From Lausanne Gibbon again... | |
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