 | 1828 - 562 pages
...recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of uiv fame. But my pride was soon humbled; and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 542 pages
...establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon hum* bled, and a sober melancholy was spread over mjr imind, 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 pages
...recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pages
...recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pages
...recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short... | |
 | 1849 - 802 pages
...recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the...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... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,, and a sober melancholy spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pages
...my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a soher melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that...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... | |
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. 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... 
