| James Cotter Morison - 1904 - 712 Seiten
...which threw the continuation of Echard's Roman History in his wav, ho says, " To me the reigns of tho successors of Constantino were absolutely new, and...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... | |
| 1904 - 1126 Seiten
...boy in the library of Stourhead, upon a book which rather irritated than appeased his curiosity. He was immersed in the passage of the Goths over the Danube, "when the summons of the dinner-bell reluctantly dragged him from his intellectual feast." 1 The Principal Navigations, Voyages,... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1909 - 328 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...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 - 1916 - 1006 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 Constan" tine were absolutely new; and I was immersed in the passage of " the Goths over the Danube,... | |
| John Bennett Black - 1926 - 220 Seiten
...China, of Mexico and Peru. ... 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...in the library a common book, the Continuation of Eachard's Roman History, which is indeed executed with more skill and taste than the previous work.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 Seiten
...bookworm. In his Memoirs, he tells of a visit to Stourhead in Wiltshire at the age of 14, where he 'was immersed in the passage of the Goths over the Danube when the summons of the dinner-bell reluctantly dragged me from my intellectual feast.' In 1752, when his health had improved,... | |
| J. G. A. Pocock - 1999 - 372 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...indeed executed with more skill and taste than the praevious work: to me the reigns of the successors of Constantine were absolutely new; and I was immersed... | |
| J. G. A. Pocock - 2001 - 364 Seiten
...with more skill and taste than the praevious work: 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. This transient glance served rather... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 412 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...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... | |
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