| William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 272
...taken 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." Gibbon went to London to superintend the publication of the last three volumes of his work, and then... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...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. JEFFERSON. 1743- 1826. THOMAS JEFFERSON was born in Virginia in 174'} and died in 1826. He will live... | |
| 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...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.... | |
| Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...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,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...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.... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...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. JEFFERSON. 1743- 1826. THOMAS JEFFERSON was born in Virginia in 1743 and died in 1826. He will live... | |
| sir John Bowring - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whats icver might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." He lived nearly seven years more, but they were not years of happiness. He suffered deeply the loss... | |
| W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...my everlasting leave of an old and agreable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious" (M, 180). The Decline and Fall, his offspring, has also become his closest, oldest, most agreeable... | |
| Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...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" (Memoirs 169). In the long view — and twenty years devoted to the Decline and fall would encourage... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 1094
...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. For Gibbon, as for his admired classical authors, writing was always a work of conscious artistry.... | |
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