 | 1828 - 562 halaman
...fame. 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 fate of my history, the life of the historian might be short and precarious!"... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 halaman
...fame. 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 be short and precarious.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 542 halaman
...the idea that I had 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, 1 will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition * * Memolrci Secretes de 1st Cour... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 halaman
...fame. 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 might be short and precarious.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 halaman
...fame. 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 be short and precarious.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 halaman
...fame. 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 might be short and precarious.... | |
 | 1849 - 802 halaman
...fame. 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...life of the historian must be short and precarious." — (/.:/'', p. 255, 8vo edition.) Hume's account of his own life is a model of perspicuity, modesty,... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 halaman
...fame. But my pride was soon humbled,, and a sober melancholy 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 fate of my history, the life of the HISTORIAN might be short and precarious."... | |
 | 1817 - 494 halaman
...fame. 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 might be short and precarious.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 halaman
...the idea that I had 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 he short and precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six,... | |
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. 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... 
