 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
 | Civil service - 366 pages
...everlasting leave of 'an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever migtit be the future • date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." It shall suffice in this place to say that a weak judgment, and some vanity and much pride, will hurry... | |
 | Joseph Charles Parkinson - 1860 - 154 pages
...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable com" panion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the " life of the historian must be short and precarious." ORTHOGRAPHICAL EXERCISES. Set only to Candidates for Clerkships and similar positions. The Candidate... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...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." Evening in the Capitol. The Acacia Walk. Early life and education. Changes of creed. His first work.... | |
 | John Strang - 1863 - 352 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." * Madlle. Curchod became the wife of Mons. Necker, the minister and legislator of the French Monarchy.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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 at least of five, quartos.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...everlasting li-ave 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.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1866 - 484 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,... | |
 | Samuel Manning - Switzerland - 1866 - 228 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 to Neufchatel there is little to detain the tourist. The railway winds round the lower... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1866 - 248 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 to NeufchAtel there is little to detain the tourist. The railway • winds round the... | |
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