 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride wa,soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spreaJ e, And Jura answers, through whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarioui.'*... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 366 pages
...serene, the moon was shining on the waters, and I will not dissemble my joy. But, when I reflected that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion," Sfc. There must always be something melancholy in the moment of separation, as all have more or less... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | 1846 - 506 pages
..." the last lines of the last page " of his immortal ' Decline and Fall of the Eoman Empire :' — " A sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." It is so, perhaps, with every mau who does for the last time what he has been long accustomed to do.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over...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."... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1848 - 394 pages
...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...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."... | |
 | 1849 - 602 pages
...emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was e$ m P~ Ι DFY 6 N: n. L }IF ь g" Y Ŷ fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. "-Life,, p. 255, 8vo edition.... | |
 | 1849 - 822 pages
...emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over...companion; and that, whatever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian muet be short and precarious."— (Life , p. 255, 8vo... | |
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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... 
