 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1844 - 576 pages
...and a sober melancholy was spread onr my mind, by the Idea lhal I had taken an everlasting 1еате of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the abtorian must be short and precarious/' When Inglii vieited Lausanne... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion. and that whatsoever might be the future date vile strain of fashion's quire, May celebrate their unambi precarioui.'* The historian adds two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six or... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 366 pages
...serene, the moon was shining on the waters, and I will not dissemble my joy. But, when I reflected that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion," Sfc. There must always be something melancholy in the moment of separation, as all have more or less... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...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...companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts which... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...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...companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious. I will add two facts which... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 566 pages
...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 an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 pages
...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 an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."... | |
 | 1846 - 506 pages
...immortal ' Decline and Fall of the Eoman Empire :' — " A sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion." It is so, perhaps, with every mau who does for the last time what he has been long accustomed to do.... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." (' Life,' ch. x.) He returned for a few months to London, in order to superintend the publication of... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...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...companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." Gibbon's early education... | |
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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... 
