 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 must...  The Quarterly Review - Page 203edited by - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1846 - 318 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." (" Life," ch. x.) He returned for a few months to London, in order to superintend the publication of... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." (' Life,' ch. x.) He returned for a few months to London, in order to superintend the publication of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...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 even five quartos. 1.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...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." Gibbon's early education was defective, although his amount of general reading before he went to Oxford... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - Switzerland - 1848 - 394 pages
...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." It was a natural sadness. Men of the world often outlive the sources of their enjoyment ; and at best... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion; and that, whatever might be the future r illustration of " the ruling passion strong in death." " MY VERT GOOD LOR "-Life,, p. 255, 8vo edition. Hume's account of his own life is a model of perspicuity, modesty, and... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...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." From Lausanne Gibbon again returned to England for a short time, but he came back again to Switzerland,... | |
 | England - 1849 - 812 pages
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion ; and that, whatever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." — (Life, p. 255, 8vo edition.) Hume's account of his own life is a model of perspicuity, modesty,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 746 pages
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion ; and that, whatever might be the future fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." — Life, p. 255, 8vo edition. Hume's account of his own life is a model of perspicuity, modesty, and... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...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.' From Lausanne he returned to London to superintend the publication of his three last volumes, the appearance... | |
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