 | 1828 - 562 pagina’s
...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!" Now mark the difference of NJMKOD'S style, though [ fear I we can not... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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, 1 will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition * * Memolrci Secretes de 1st Cour... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment...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,... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pagina’s
...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." Of the merit of the execution of the several Volumes of this extensive... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pagina’s
...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 he short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 408 pagina’s
...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!" How much do Haller and Hotze, so celebrated by Zimmermann and Lavater,... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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 fate of my History, the life of the historian must... 
