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" YOUR request that I would send you an account of my uncle's death, in order to transmit a more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgments ; for, if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well assured,... "
Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts - Page 4
by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870
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The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education, Volume 1

Robert Dodsley - 1754 - 590 pages
...tranfmit a more exact tion of it to Pofterity, deferves my Acknowledgments ; for if this Accident fliall be celebrated by your Pen, the Glory of it, I am well aflured, will be rendered for ever illuftrious. And notwithftandmg he periflied by a Misfortune, which,...
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The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks, Volume 1

Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth - 1757 - 390 pages
...more exact relation of it to pofterity, de~ ferves my acknowledgments ; for if this accident fhall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well aflured, will be rendered for ever illuftrious. And notwithftanding he perifhed by a miffortune, which,...
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The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks, Volume 1

Pliny (the Younger.) - 1807 - 424 pages
...audience, as well as the author, should be of sound intellects. Farewell. LETTER XVI. |. TO TACITUS. YOUR request, that I would send you an account of...transmit a more exact relation of it to posterity, merits my acknowledgments ; for, if the glorious circumstances which occasioned this accident shall...
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The Letters of Pliny the Consul, Volumes 1-2

Pliny (the Younger.) - 1809 - 620 pages
...audience, as well as the author, should be of sound intellects. Farewell. LETTER XVI. . TO TACITUS. YOUR request, that I would send you an account of my uncle's death, in order to transmit a more oxact relation of it to posterity, merits my acknowledgments ; for, if the glorious circumstances which...
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Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and ...

Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...sound judgment, but that he takes care his audience have so too. Farewel. LETTER XLVII. TO TACITUS. YOUR request that I would send you an account of my...transmit a more exact relation of it to posterity, merits my acknowledgments ; for, if the glorious circumstances which occasioaed this accident shall...
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The Gallery of Nature and Art: Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science, Volume 1

Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 590 pages
...are numbered sixteen and twenty in the sixth book of bis epistolary collection. " TO TACITUS. " Youu request that I would send you an account of my uncle's...rendered for ever illustrious. And notwithstanding be perished by a misfortune, which, as it involved at the same time a most beautiful country in ruins...
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A new theoretical and practical grammar of the French tongue

C. Gros - 1818 - 492 pages
...nothing, than to (be doing of nothing)""". Farewell. [x] que personne, 137 ; [y] pro7. Pliny to Tacitus. Your request*, that I would send you (an account)-...more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgments'1; for, if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, (the glory of)* it, I am...
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A Midsummer Day's Dream: A Poem

Edwin Atherstone - 1824 - 358 pages
...effects of terror, which might otherwise appear unnatural or overcharged. i PLINY THE YOUNGER TO TACITUS* YOUR request that I would send you an account of my...more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgements; for if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well...
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Notes of a Travel: Being a Journal of a Tour in Europe

John P. Hiester - 1845 - 298 pages
...TRAVEL. Letters of Pliny the younger to Tacitus, containing an account of the destruction of Pompeii. "Your request that I would send you an account of...more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgements ; for, if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well...
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Letters on various subjects. [With a portrait.], Volume 5

James Caughey - 1847 - 376 pages
...prohibit more, as I anticipate " much matter for the pen, "in Naples and its environs. " To Tacitus. — Your request that I would send you an account of my...more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgements ; for if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well...
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