 I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was...  The Tourist in Switzerland and Italy - Side 25af Thomas Roscoe - 1830 - 278 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 sider
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...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 five quartos. 1.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 sider
...page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...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 five quartos. 1.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 sider
...of the country, the Lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silyer orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and...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 five quartos. 1.... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 sider
...the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." (' Life,' ch. x.) He returned for a few months to London, in order to superintend the publication of... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 sider
...the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious." (" Life," ch. x.) He returned for a few months to London, in order to superintend the publication of... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 sider
...reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment...life of the historian must be short and precarious." Gibbon's early education was defective, although his amount of general reading before he went to Oxford... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1848 - 394 sider
...last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect...life of the historian must be short and precarious." It was a natural sadness. Men of the world often outlive the sources of their enjoyment ; and at best... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 sider
...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." From Lausanne Gibbon again returned to England for a short time, but he came back again to Switzerland,... | |
 | 1849 - 602 sider
...an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion; and that, whatever might be the future fate ` ' Lss9 # 9 F#[ p ! X q\m ]# "-Life,, p. 255, 8vo edition. Hume's account of his own life is a model of perspicuity, modesty, and... | |
 | 1849 - 844 sider
...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." — (Life, p. 255, 8vo edition.) Hume's account of his own life is a model of perspicuity, modesty,... | |
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