 | 1857 - 456 pages
...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." l Sad that the Consolations of Philosophy should have offered nothing better than this ! Taking the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...everlasting' leave of tin 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 fire, quartos.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 pages
...a pathetic leave of his book, bid it good speed, - Lord Campbell, Lord St. Leonards, the Right Hoa. Maziere Brady, the Right Hon. Joseph Napier, the Right...nearly half a lifetime, without deep anxiety as to how they shall be received by the extensive acquaintances to whom I now entrust them, happily under the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1858 - 694 pages
...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 numbers should be written in letters, not in figures. ORTHOGRAPHICAL EXERCISES. (^Set only to... | |
 | 1858 - 398 pages
...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 numbers should be written in letters, not in figures. ORTHOGRAPHICAL EXERCISES. only to Candidates... | |
 | 1858 - 600 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 had already twice or thrice read Gibbon's Memoirs of himself. But I have read them again with great... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 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.' From Lausanne he returned to London to superintend the publication of his three last volumes, the appearance... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 pages
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." The French revolution now began to disturb the neighbouring states, and Mr. Gibbon returned to England,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 1008 pages
...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion ; and tli.it whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." He went over to England bearing the manuscript of the last 8 volumes with him, and on hie 51st birthday,... | |
 | Civil service - 366 pages
...everlasting leave of 'an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever migtit be the future • date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." It shall suffice in this place to say that a weak judgment, and some vanity and much pride, will hurry... | |
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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... 
