 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 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.... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1839 - 424 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." There is something in these reflections, that appeals to the hearts... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1839 - 394 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." There is something in these reflections that appeals to the hearts... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 386 pages
...the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and thai 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, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 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.... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1842 - 968 pages
...Idea that 1 had taken an everlasting leave of an old anil agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." When Inglls visited Lausanne a few years ago, the library of the historian is said to have been complete,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 612 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." Yes ! — there we were in the self-same garden. The acacias still waved their golden hair; the summerhouse... | |
 | 1843 - 602 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." Yes! — there we were in the self-same garden. The acacias still waved their trold"iiliair; the summerhouse... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 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.'* The historian adds two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six or even five quartos... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion. and that whatsoever ose muse Disdains the servile strain of fashion's quire, May celebrate their unambi precarioui.'* The historian adds two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six or... | |
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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... 
