 | 1849 - 600 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."-Lt/«, p. 255, 8vo edition. Hume's account of his own life is a model of perspicuity,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1844 - 576 pages
...Idea lhal I had taken an everlasting 1еате of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the abtorian must be short and precarious/' When Inglii vieited Lausanne a few years ago, the library of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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 even five quartos. 1.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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 even five quartos. 1.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 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." Gibbon's early education was defective, although his amount of general reading before he went to Oxford... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1848 - 394 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." It was a natural sadness. Men of the world often outlive the sources of their enjoyment ; and at best... | |
 | 1849 - 602 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion; and that, whatever might be the future fate ustration of " the ruling passion strong in death." " MY VERT GOOD LORD, " I wa p. 255, 8vo edition. Hume's account of his own life is a model of perspicuity, modesty, and good sense... | |
 | 1849 - 844 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." — (Life, p. 255, 8vo edition.) Hume's account of his own life is a model of perspicuity, modesty, and good sense... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pages
...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." From Lausanne Gibbon again returned to England for a short time, but he came back again to Switzerland,... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 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 must be short and precarious. GIBBON'S FIRST LOVE. I HESITATE, from the apprehension of ridicule, when I approach the delicate subject... | |
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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... 
