 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 pages
...the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the fate of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.' Gibbon was then fifty years of age. SIR WALTER SCOTT. Sir Walter Scott, when a boy, gave very slight... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 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." Gibbon went to London to superintend the publication of the last three volumes of his work, and then... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 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. JEFFERSON. 1743- 1826. THOMAS JEFFERSON was born in Virginia in 174'} and died in 1826. He will live... | |
 | 1875 - 448 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.... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 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. JEFFERSON. 1743- 1826. THOMAS JEFFERSON was born in Virginia in 1743 and died in 1826. He will live... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 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.... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 pages
...my everlasting leave of an old and agreable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my history, the life of the historian must be short and precarious" (M, 180). The Decline and Fall, his offspring, has also become his closest, oldest, most agreeable... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 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" (Memoirs 169). In the long view — and twenty years devoted to the Decline and fall would encourage... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 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. For Gibbon, as for his admired classical authors, writing was always a work of conscious artistry.... | |
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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... 
