 | Hunting - 1828 - 562 pages
...my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of uiv fame. But my pride was soon humbled; and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea, that...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion ; and that, whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the historian might be short and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon hum* bled, and a sober melancholy was spread over mjr imind, by the idea that I had 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 548 pages
...my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the " idea...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humhled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken ли everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date... | |
 | England - 1849 - 802 pages
...of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that...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... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind by the idea that...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian might be short and... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,, and a sober melancholy spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken...everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion ; and that, whatsoever might be the future fate of my history, the life of the HISTORIAN might be short and... | |
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. 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... 
