The gallery of portraits: with memoirs ...: Gustavus AdolphusC. Knight, 1837 |
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27. oldal
... writing the Decline and Fall of the City first started to his mind . This idea , once suggested , was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented him from immediately pursuing it , it remained immovably fixed in his mind ...
... writing the Decline and Fall of the City first started to his mind . This idea , once suggested , was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented him from immediately pursuing it , it remained immovably fixed in his mind ...
28. oldal
... written in French , through a secret ambition in the author to acquire a peculiar celebrity , as a successful writer in a foreign language . This dream , however , was not realised , The Essai ' was received with little enthusiasm ...
... written in French , through a secret ambition in the author to acquire a peculiar celebrity , as a successful writer in a foreign language . This dream , however , was not realised , The Essai ' was received with little enthusiasm ...
30. oldal
... written . He visited England to superintend the printing of these three volumes , and published them together on his fifty - first birthday . He lived only five years and seven months longer : and his premature death ( for he died ...
... written . He visited England to superintend the printing of these three volumes , and published them together on his fifty - first birthday . He lived only five years and seven months longer : and his premature death ( for he died ...
31. oldal
... ( written between 1755 and 1763 ) ; Mémoire sur la Monarchie des Mèdes ' ( do . ) ; Introduction à l'Histoire Générale de la République des Suisses ' ( 1767 ) ; Antiquities of the House of Brunswick ' ( 1790 ) . 6 Classical and critical ...
... ( written between 1755 and 1763 ) ; Mémoire sur la Monarchie des Mèdes ' ( do . ) ; Introduction à l'Histoire Générale de la République des Suisses ' ( 1767 ) ; Antiquities of the House of Brunswick ' ( 1790 ) . 6 Classical and critical ...
42. oldal
... writing and in preaching , as the missionary of his sect , both escaped injury , and acquired reputation and esteem by his self - devotion . To the favour of the King and the Duke of York he had a hereditary claim , which appears always ...
... writing and in preaching , as the missionary of his sect , both escaped injury , and acquired reputation and esteem by his self - devotion . To the favour of the King and the Duke of York he had a hereditary claim , which appears always ...
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