 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 512 pages
...work, the true era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years ;" " three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...work, the true sera of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years. The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative; and I was often tempted to cast away the labor of seven years. The style of an author should be the imasre of his mind, but the... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...true sera of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years. The style of an author should be the image of hie mind, but the... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...work, the true era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative; and I was often tempted to cast away the labor of seven years ; ' and, again, ¿ three times did I compose the first chapter,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative; and I was often tempted to cast away the labor of seven years. The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labor of seven years. The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...work, the true era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labor of seven years. The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 826 pages
...work, the true era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years ;" " three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative; and I was often tempted to cast away the labor of seven years. The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the... | |
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At the outset all was dark and doubtful; even the title of the work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative; and I was often tempted to cast away... 
