 | Henry Van Dyke - 1911 - 444 pages
...a new acquaintance of any original merit; and the mutual surprise of the public and their favorite is productive of those warm sensibilities which at...seriously satisfied with the approbation of my judges. The candor of Dr. Robertson embraced his disciple. Nearly two years had elapsed between the publication... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1913 - 494 pages
...a new acquaintance of any original merit; and the mutual surprise of the public and their favorite is productive of those warm sensibilities which at...seriously satisfied with the approbation of my judges. The candor of Dr. Robertson embraced his disciple. A letter from Mr. Hume overpaid the labor of ten years;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 pages
...new acquaintance of " any original merit ; and the mutual surprise of the public and " their favorite is productive of those warm sensibilities, which at...satisfied with the " approbation of my judges. The candor of Dr. Robertson em" braced his disciple. A letter from Mr. Hume overpaid the labor " of ten... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 2001 - 452 pages
...David Hume, 1770' The candour of Dr Robertson embraced his disciple: a letter from Mr Hume over paid the labour of ten years; but I have never presumed to accept a place in the triumvirate of British historians. Edward Gibbon, 1 789-9 1.2 It is desirable to return for a moment to the perspectives... | |
 | Frank Welsh - 2003 - 546 pages
...longer expected any valuable production ever to come from them. Gibbon's comment was that the letter 'overpaid the labour of ten years; but I have never presumed to accept a place in the triumvirate of British historians'.23 'Send us our boobies again' The comparison with Ireland is revealing. After... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 2001 - 452 pages
...Hanoverian kingdoms . . . this is the historical age and this the historical nation. David Hume, 17701 The candour of Dr Robertson embraced his disciple: a letter from Mr Hume over paid the labour often years; but I have never presumed to accept a place in the triumvirate of... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 442 pages
...be taken together as illustrating this point. The first is found in Gibbon's autobiography and runs: The candour of Dr Robertson embraced his disciple;...overpaid the labour of ten years; but I have never aspired to a place in the triumvirate of British historians.1 The second, probably written earlier,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 412 pages
...bestowed on a new acquaintance of any original merit, and the mutual surprize of the public and their favourite is productive of those warm sensibilities...of my Judges. The candour of Dr. Robertson embraced bis disciple ; a letter from Mr. Hume 80 overpaid the labour of M That curious and original letter... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...a new acquaintance of any original merit ; and the mutual surprise of the public and their favorite is productive of those warm sensibilities which at...seriously satisfied with the approbation of my judges. The candor of Dr. Robertson embraced his disciple. A letter from Mr. Hume overpaid the labor of ten years... | |
 | Sir John Edwin Sandys - 1908 - 542 pages
...was exhausted in a few days. The work had been warmly welcomed by the leading historians of the day. 'The candour of Dr Robertson embraced his disciple....letter from Mr Hume overpaid the labour of ten years '2. On the publication of the second and third volumes (1781), ending with the fall of the Western... | |
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... is productive of those warm sensibilities, which at a second meeting can no longer be rekindled. If I listened to the music of praise, I was more seriously satisfied with the approbation of my judges. The candour of Dr. Robertson embraced his disciple.... 
