 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...soon tired, (says Gibbon, when speaking of his history, in the memoirs of his life,) I was soon tired with the modest practice of reading the manuscript...own performance ; no one has so deeply meditated on Remarks upoo the subject, no one is so sincerely interested in the event." consulting •' When a composition,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...; a fault of which I have never beard, except from Mr. Hume, in bis last journey to London. Such an oracle might have been consulted and obeyed with rational...the manuscript to my friends. Of such friends, some •wUI praise from politeness, and some will criticise from vanity. The author himself is the best... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1839 - 418 pages
...none ; and others, out of pure malice, see nothing but faults. " I was soon disgusted," says GIBBON, " with the modest practice of reading the manuscript to my friends. Of such friends some will praise for politeness, and some will criticise for vanity." Had several of our first writers set their fortunes... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 pages
...none ; and others, out of pure malice, see nothing but faults. " I was soon disgusted," says GIBBON, " with the modest practice of reading the manuscript to my friends. Of such friends some will praise for politeness, and some will criticise for vanity." Had several of our first writers set their fortunes... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...Alexander; a fault of which I have never heard, except from Mr. Hume in his last journey to London. Such an oracle might have been consulted and obeyed with rational...such friends, some will praise from politeness, and sonic will criticise from vanity. The author himself is the best judge of his own performance ; no... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...journey to London. Such an oracle might have been consulted and obeyed with rational devotion ; hut I was soon disgusted with the modest practice of reading...will criticise from vanity. The author himself is the fcest judge of his own performance; no one has so deeply meditated on the subject; no one is so sincerely... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...sixteenth chapters have been reduced, by three successive revisals, from a large volume to their present best judge of his own performance ; no one has so...subject; no one is so sincerely interested in the event. The volume of my history, which had been somewhat delayed by the novelty and tumult of a first session,... | |
 | 1857 - 448 pages
...been submitted, if not to the " eyes," to the " ears " of others ; for he elsewhere tells us that he was " soon disgusted with the modest practice of reading the manuscript to his friends." • Such, however, were his preliminary difficulties, that he confesses he was often... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...Alexander; a fault of which I have never heard, except from Mr. Hume in his last journey to London. Such an oracle might have been consulted and obeyed with rational devotion ; but I WM soon disgusted with the modest practice of reading the manuscript to my friends. Of such friends,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...advanced with a more equal and easy pace ; but the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters have been reduced, best judge of his own performance ; no one has so...subject; no one is so sincerely interested in the event. The volume of my history, which had been somewhat delayed by the novelty and tumult of a first session,... | |
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... and they might still be compressed without any loss of facts or sentiments. An opposite fault may be imputed to the concise and superficial narrative of the first reigns from Commodus to Alexander; a fault of which I have never heard, except from... 
