...in a twelvemonth he sold only forty-five copies of it. I scarcely, indeed. heard of one mau in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters,...separately sent me messages not to. be discouraged. I was, however, I confess, discouraged ; and had not the war been at that time breaking out between...

...had sold only forty-five copies of it. " I ' scarcely indeed," says Hume, " heard of one man in the three kingdoms considerable for rank or letters that could endure the book. I must only except the Pri' mate of England, Dr. Herring, and the Primate of ' Ireland, Dr. Stone, which seemed two odd exceptions....

...in a twelvemonth he sold only forty-five copies of it. I scarcely, indeed, heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters,...separately sent me messages not to be discouraged." We are by no means sure that this first essay of our historian's excited all the clamour, and encountered...

...that in a twelvemonth he sold only fortyfive copies of it. I scarcely, indeed, heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters,...exceptions. These dignified prelates separately sent me a message not to be discouraged. I was, however, I confess, discouraged ; and had not the war at that...

...in a twelvemonth he sold only forty-five copies of it. I scarcely, indeed, heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters,...Ireland, Dr Stone, which seem two odd exceptions. Tlie.se dignified prelates separately sent me messages not to be discouraged. "I was, however, I confess,...

...one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could endure the 1869.] [June, book. I must only except the Primate of England, Dr....separately sent me messages not to be discouraged. " I was, nowever, I confess, discouraged ; and had not the war been at that time breaking out between...

...he sold only forty-five copies of it ; and Hume adds, ' I scarcely, indeed, heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could endure the book.' The ' Decline and Fall,' on the contrary, met with instantaneous success. ' I am at a loss,' says Gibbon,...

...twelvemonth he sold only forty-five copies of it; and Hume adds, 'I scarcely, indeed, heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could endure the book.' The ' Decline and Fall,' on the contrary, met with instantaneous success. ' I am at a loss,' says Gibbon,...

...only two persons considerable for rank or letters, who to his knowledge could endure the book, were the Primate of England, Dr. Herring, and the Primate of Ireland, Dr. Stone. These "dignified prelates," he observes, " seem odd exceptions, but they separately sent me a message...

...the second time, of the Duke of Dorset, in 1751, as Viceroy, and of his son, Lord George Sackwhich seem two odd exceptions. These dignified prelates...separately sent me messages not to be discouraged.* — Hume's Autobiography. Of the liberality of Stone to the Catholics some instances are given in Curry's...