| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded... | |
| Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded... | |
| Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...unprecedented for a grave Historical work : ' the first impression was exhausted in a few days ; л second and here pirates of Dublin : the book was on every table, and almost on every toilet. ' His brotherhistorians,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 1056 pages
...the Roman Empire' appeared in 4to., and was received by the public in the most favourable manner : ' the first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand.' The second and third volumes, which terminated... | |
| 1838 - 542 pages
...the Roman Empire' appeared in 4to., and was received by the public in the most favourable manner : ' the first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand.' The second and third volumes, which terminated... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 pages
...of the Roman Empire' appeared in 4to., and was received by the public in the most favourable manner: 'the first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand.' The sewnd and third volumes, which terminated... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 542 pages
...the Roman Empire' appeared in 4to., and was received jy the public in the most favourable manner : ' the first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third jdition were scarcely adequate to the demand.' The second and third volumes, which terminated... | |
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