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... French critic terms Mr. Gibbon's an " endless history . " Perhaps indeed , consist- ently with his title , he might have stopped when the seat of empire was transferred from Rome ; perhaps more properly at the division of the empire ...
... French critic terms Mr. Gibbon's an " endless history . " Perhaps indeed , consist- ently with his title , he might have stopped when the seat of empire was transferred from Rome ; perhaps more properly at the division of the empire ...
Side 48
... French word memoirs ; and more works of this kind have been published in France than in any other country , many of them under the title " Memoirs pour servir a l'Histoire , " & c . Among a vast class of publications of this description ...
... French word memoirs ; and more works of this kind have been published in France than in any other country , many of them under the title " Memoirs pour servir a l'Histoire , " & c . Among a vast class of publications of this description ...
Side 54
... French : among these I do not class the Dictionary of Bayle ; for though it is a vast treasure of antient and modern learning , I think there never was a work composed with so little either of judgment or of taste . The text is a mere ...
... French : among these I do not class the Dictionary of Bayle ; for though it is a vast treasure of antient and modern learning , I think there never was a work composed with so little either of judgment or of taste . The text is a mere ...
Side 62
... French and English , but my limits will allow me only to notice a few of the latter . The popularity of Anson's voyage has established its character , and that popularity ( whoever was the writer , whether Robins the engineer , or the ...
... French and English , but my limits will allow me only to notice a few of the latter . The popularity of Anson's voyage has established its character , and that popularity ( whoever was the writer , whether Robins the engineer , or the ...
Side 81
... of poverty . Among the French , Balzac and Voiture were long regarded as models of epistolary writing ; but the former is pompous and inflated ; and in the latter there is such a continual affecta- tion E 5 EPISTOLARY WRITING . 81 ...
... of poverty . Among the French , Balzac and Voiture were long regarded as models of epistolary writing ; but the former is pompous and inflated ; and in the latter there is such a continual affecta- tion E 5 EPISTOLARY WRITING . 81 ...
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