 | George Arthur Gaskell - 1884 - 164 pages
...begun ; and, perhaps, the day of his perfect re-establishment does not yield him pleasure so greaL The author himself is the best judge of his own performance...subject ; no one is so sincerely interested in the evenL Not one word is said, nor one suggestion made, of a general right to choose our own governors... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...; 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...his own performance ; no one has so deeply meditated the subject ; no one is so sincerely interested in the event. .3. It was not till after many designs... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1887 - 1040 pages
...; 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...reading the manuscript to my friends. Of such friends gome will praise from politeness, and some will criticise from vanity. The author himself is the best... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 466 pages
...Johnson's Works, v. 219. See ante, ii. 478. " ' The author himself,' wrote Gibbon (Misc. Works, i. 220), ' is the best judge of his own performance ; no one...; no one is so sincerely interested in the event.' 3 Mickle, speaking in the third person as the Translator, says :— ' He is happy to be enabled to... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1887 - 232 pages
...new school of art, and appealed from his circle to the public. It was Gibbon who wrote : — " I was disgusted 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. " And Montaigne has honestly told us that in his... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1889 - 500 pages
...any purpose who have not been their own teachers. Some, says Gibbon, praise from politeness, and some criticise from vanity. The author himself is the best...so deeply meditated on the subject ; no one is so interested in the event.' Rogers was not entirely faithful to the principle contained in these last... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 pages
...; 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...from politeness, and some will criticise from vanity, frhe author himself is the best judge of his own performance ; no one has so deeply meditated on the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 548 pages
...have appeared in my account of last year; 1 'The author himself,' wrote Gibbon (Misc. Works, \. 220), 'is the best judge of his own performance ; no one...; no one is so sincerely interested in the event.' ' Mickle, speaking in the third person as the Translator, says:— ' He is happy to be enabled to add... | |
 | Thomas Hitchcock - 1891 - 274 pages
...directly to the printer without submitting to the criticism of others, because, as he says, " The author is the best judge of his own performance. No one has...; no one is so sincerely interested in the event." The success which the book had, is paralleled only by that of Macaulay's " History of England," a century... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1895 - 246 pages
...; 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...performance ; no one has so deeply meditated on the subj ect ; no one is so sincerely interested in the event. By the friendship of Mr. (now Lord) Elliot,... | |
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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... 
