 | Richard Duppa - 1829 - 558 pages
...had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious."* LUCERNE. Just out of the town of Lucerne is a monument to honour the memory of the Swiss who fell on... | |
 | 1830 - 222 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." The sentiment of regret thus breathed by Gibbon his been no less beautifully expressed in the verse... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date by the power or innlico of enemies ; but the first and the last of thes The historian adds two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six or even five quartos;... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable 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 have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos.... | |
 | 1830 - 400 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." The sentiment of regret thus breathed by Gibbon has been no less beautifully expressed in the verse... | |
 | 1833 - 666 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, andthat whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." Lausanne and Forney, as the abodes of Voltaire and of Gibbon, have been finely apostrophised by Lord... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable 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 have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or even of five, quartos.... | |
 | 1838 - 596 pages
...taken everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might he the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." The sensations of Gibbon at this memorable moment reminds us of the feelings described by Bruce the... | |
 | 1839 - 764 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable 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 have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least five quarto... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pages
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable 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 have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos.... | |
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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 whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must... 
