 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...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 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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1813 - 716 pages
...reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I wiH not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment...life of the historian must be short and precarious." AMERICAN SCENfiRY— FOR THE PORT FOLIO. LEMON HILL, which the annexed plate represents, is the seat... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...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 be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pages
...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 might be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 pages
..." 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 might be short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition... | |
 | 1849 - 802 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pages
...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 might be short and precarious. I wfll add two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment...life of the historian must be short and precarious." . The acacias still flourish, as does the weeping willow wlûch he planted, and I need not add, that... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...waters, and all nature was- silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of nry freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame....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 date of my History, the life of the historian must... 
