| 1854 - 428 Seiten
...become the peerless painter. " In the summer of 1751 I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's, in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties...discovering in the library a common book, the 'Continuation ofEchard's Roman History.' To me the reigns of the successors of Constantine were absolutely new; and... | |
| 1856 - 560 Seiten
...be ascribed to an accident. In the summer of 1751 I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's, in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties...discovering in the library ^a common book, the Continuation ofEchard's Roman History, which is indeed executed with more skill and taste than the previous work.... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 Seiten
...beauties of Stourhead than with discovering in the library a common book, the Continuation ofEchard's Roman History, which is indeed executed with more...previous work. To me the reigns of the successors of Constantine were absolutely new ; and I was immersed in the passage of the Goths over the Danube when... | |
| 1857 - 476 Seiten
...1751, he notes his "discovery" of a " common book " — Echard's Roman History..2 " To me," he says, " the reigns of the successors of Constantino were absolutely...the Goths over' the Danube, when the summons of the dinner bell reluctantly dragged me from my intellectual feast." He seems even then to have adopted... | |
| Edward Gibbon, William Smith - 1862 - 466 Seiten
...be ascribed to an accident. In the summer of 1751 I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's, in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties...the Continuation of Echard's Roman History, which i? indeed executed with more skill and taste than the previous work. To me the reigns of the successors... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 Seiten
...ascribed to an accident. In the summer of 1751, I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's, in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties...previous work. To me the reigns of the successors of Constantine were absolutely new; and I was immersed in the passage of the Goths over the Danube, when... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 Seiten
...be ascribed to an accident. In the summer of 1751 I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties...with discovering in the library a common book, the u Continuation of Echard's Roman History," which is indeed executed with more skill and taste than... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1878 - 1070 Seiten
...ascribed to an accident. In the summer of 1751, I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's, in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties...the Goths over the Danube, when the summons of the dinner bell reluctantly dragged me from my intellectual feast. This transient glance served rather... | |
| 1878 - 1074 Seiten
...ascribed to an nccklent. In the summer of 1751, I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's, in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties...History, which is indeed executed with more skill and laste than the previous work. To me the reigns of the successors of Constantino were absolutely new... | |
| James Cotter Morison - 1878 - 216 Seiten
...of Echard's Roman History in his way, he says, " To me the reigns of the successors of Constantine were absolutely new, and I was immersed in the passage...the Goths over the Danube, when the summons of the dinner-bell reluctantly dragged me from my intellectual feast. ... I procured the second and third... | |
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