 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 pages
...of that writer. Hume told him very candidly and justly, that his study of the French writers led him into a style more poetical and figurative, and more...than our language seems to admit of in historical composition. We find, hi his correspondence, that during his first residence abroad, he had almost... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pages
...of that writer. Hume told him very candidly and justly, that his study of the French writers led him into a style more poetical and figurative, and more...than our language seems to admit of in historical composition. We find, in his correspondence, that during his first residence abroad, he had almost... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...Robertson is the better writer." Hume said, in a letter to Gibbon, " Your use of the French tongue has led you into a style more poetical and figurative,...than our language seems to admit of in historical composition : for such is the practice of the French writers, particularly the more modern ones, who... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...Robertson is-the better writer." Hume said, in a letter to Gibbon, " Your use of the French tongue has led you into a style more poetical and figurative,...than our language seems to admit of in historical composition : for such is the practice of the French writers, particularly the more modern ones, who... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pages
...Robertson is the better writer." Hume said, in a letter to Gibbon, " Your use of the French tongue has led you into a style more poetical and figurative,...than our language seems to admit of in historical composition : for such is the practice of the French writers, particularly the more modern ones, who... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 882 pages
...therefore, triumph in the present diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation...language. " Your use of the French tongue has also led yon into a style more poetical and figurative, and more highly coloured, than our language seems to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...therefore, triumph in the present diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation of barbarians, promise a superior ttability and duration to the English language. " Your nae of the French tongue has also led yon into... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pages
...therefore, triumph in the present diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation...historical productions : for such is the practice o French writers, particularly the more recent ones, who illuminate their pictures more than custom... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...therefore, triumph in the present diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation...led you into a style more poetical and figurative, aud more highly coloured, than our language seems to admit of in historical productions : for such... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 pages
...therefore, triumph in the present diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation...led you into a style more poetical and figurative, aud more highly coloured, than our language seems to admit of in historical productions : for .such... | |
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The Latin, though then less celebrated, and confined to more narrow limits, has, in some measure, outlived the Greek, and is now more generally understood by men of letters. Let the French, therefore, triumph in the present diffusion of their tongue.... 
