 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 506 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.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 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.... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 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,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1869 - 572 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." Gibbon was born in the year 1737, at Putney in Surrey The delicate boy received much of his early education... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five quartos.... | |
 | Appleton D. and co - 1870 - 900 pages
...taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." The boulevard of Montbenon, to the west of Lausanne, and just outside the town, is a pleasant promenade,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 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." It is the common lot. It is but another reading of the complaint in Prior's pastorals— "Yet thus... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 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." It is the common lot. It is but another reading of the complaint in Prior's pastorals— "Yet thus... | |
 | 1871 - 652 pages
...with Lord Plunket : and nothing remained but to take a pathetic leave of his book, bid it good speed, and commend it to the charitable construction of his...bound up in his Lives ; which he almost endows with vitality as he parts from them : — ' I cannot part with those who have been my companions for nearly... | |
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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... 
