 I had taken an 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 precarious. I will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition...  Reminiscences, addresses, and essays - Stranica 92napisao/la Francis Lieber - 1880Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - Broj stranica: 238
...add two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos. 1. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate...those of the author and the printer : the faults and the merits are exclusively my own. I cannot help recollecting a much more extraordinary fact, which... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1879 - Broj stranica: 488
...help him in the accumulating work, not even in the correction of the press. ' Not a sheet,' he says, ' has been seen by any human eyes, excepting those of the author aud printer ; the faults and the merits are exclusively my own.' And he wrote most of it with one pen,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - Broj stranica: 726
...two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five quartos: (i.) My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate...those of the author and the printer : the faults and the merits are exclusively my own. Autobiography. Charlemagne. The appellation of Great has been often... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - Broj stranica: 694
...two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos : i. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate...those of the author and the printer. The faults and the merits are exclusively my own. THE OVERTHROW OF ZEXOHIA. [INTRODUCTION. — The following extract... | |
 | Frédéric Hunt - 1883 - Broj stranica: 194
...add two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos. 1. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate...those of the author and the printer ; the faults and the merits are exclusively my own. — Gibbon (Oxford Exam. Papers, Ss.'iior, Second Paper, 1873).... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1885 - Broj stranica: 612
...polish to my work. — Gibbon, Memoirs, Chap. ix. And in chapter x., speaking of his history, he says, " My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent to the press." It appears from Ticknor's Life of Prescott, that the latter carried this practice so far as to be able... | |
 | 1886 - Broj stranica: 218
...add two facts which have seldom occurred in the composition of six or even five quartos : — " 1. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate...those of the author and the printer : the faults and the merits are exclusively my own. " When I contemplate the common lot of mortality, I must acknowledge... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - Broj stranica: 690
...two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five, quartos : i . My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate...those . of the author and the printer. The faults and the merits are exclusively my own. THE OVERTHROW OF ZEN'OBIA. [INTRODUCTION. — The following extract... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1887 - Broj stranica: 232
...continues : — " I will add two facts which have seldom occurred in composition of six, or at least five quartos, — my first rough manuscript, without...any intermediate copy, has been sent to the press ; second, not a sheet has been seen by any human eye, except those of the author and the printer, —... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1887 - Broj stranica: 232
...intermediate copy, has been sent to the press ; second, not a sheet has been seen by any human eye, except those of the author and the printer, — the faults and merits are exclusively my own. " Gibbon tells us of his History : — " At the outset, all was dark and doubtful,-^-even the title... | |
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