 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1858 - 694 pages
...garden. After laying down my pen, I ' took several turns in a covered walk which commands a prospect of 1 the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was...letters, not in figures. ORTHOGRAPHICAL EXERCISES. (^Set only to Candidates for Clerkships, and similar positions.^ No. 1. (Time allowed, 1J hours.) Copy... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...slyness upon Christianity, and cannot sec, without ui'y your determined bo* UUty to the Oospel." I which commands a prospect of the country, the lake,...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.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment...life of the historian must be short and precarious.' From Lausanne he returned to London to superintend the publication of his three last volumes, the appearance... | |
 | Unitarian churches - 1858 - 588 pages
...freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken...life of the historian must be short and precarious." I had already twice or thrice read Gibbon's Memoirs of himself. But I have read them again with great... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 434 pages
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatever might be the fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.' Mr. O'Flanagan's hopes and fears, pleasures and affections, have been similarly bound up in his ' Lives... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...my garden. After laying down my \>cn, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake,...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 Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 812 pages
...reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment...life of the historian must be short and precarious." He went over to England bearing the manuscript of the last 3 volumes with him, and on his 51st birthday,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 1008 pages
...mind by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion ; and tli.it whatsoever might be the future date of my history,...life of the historian must be short and precarious." He went over to England bearing the manuscript of the last 8 volumes with him, and on hie 51st birthday,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 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." The French revolution now began to disturb the neighbouring states, and Mr. Gibbon returned to England,... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1860 - 806 pages
...reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment...life of the historian must be short and precarious." He went over to England bearing the manuscript of the last 3 volumes with him, and on his 51st birthday,... | |
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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... 
