 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another, till I had ranged round the circle of Oriental history. Before I was sixteen I had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 516 pages
...instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ocklcy, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes; and I was led from one book to another till I had ranged round the circle of Oriental history. Before I was sixteen I had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1862 - 432 pages
...instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another, till I had ranged round the circle of Oriental History." — (Gibbon, Misc. Works, i. 42.) OEXMELIN : Histoire des Avanturiers Flibustiers qui se... | |
 | 1869 - 794 pages
...instinct of criticism directed me to the genuino sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another till I had ranged round the circle of Oriental history. Before I was sixteen I had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 pages
...instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another, till I had ranged round the circle of Oriental history. Before I was sixteen, I had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and... | |
 | 1869 - 1188 pages
...instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another till I had ranged round the circle of Oriental history. Before I was sixteen I had exhausted all that could bo learned in English of the Arabs and... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1869 - 798 pages
...instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another till I had ranged rom,d the circle of Oriental history. Before I was sixteen I had exhaиa'.ol all tlr.,t could be learned... | |
 | 1869 - 890 pages
...instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another till I had ranged ronnd the circle of Oriental history. Before I was sixteen I had exhausted all that could be learned... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 pages
...instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another till I had ranged round the circle of Oriental history. Befjre I was sixteen, I had exhausted all that could be r learned in English of the Arabs... | |
 | 1878 - 1074 pages
...instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another, till I had ranged round the circle of oriental history. Before I was sixteen, I had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and... | |
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World, which exhibit the Byzantine period on a larger scale. Mahomet and his Saracens soon fixed my attention ; and some instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was... 
