 Advocates chose me their Librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the History of England...  London Review - Page 2011767Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1794 - 614 pages
...emolument, but which gave me the command of a hrge library. 1 then formed the plan of writing the Hiilory of England; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative I commenced with the acceffion of the Häufe of Stuart, an epoch when, I thought, the mifreprefentations... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1799 - 390 pages
...gave him the command of a large library. He formed about this period the plan of writing THE HISTOIY OF ENGLAND ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of feven* teen hundred years, he commenced with the acceffion of the Houfe tf Stuart ; an epoch when he... | |
 | 1805 - 608 pages
...large library. I then formed the plan of writing the History of England ; but being frightened with tie notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the accession of the House of Stuart,' an epoch when, I thought, the misrepresentations of faction began... | |
 | David Hume - 1819 - 432 pages
...emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the History of England ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative . through a period of seventeen hundred years, I commenced with the accession of the house of Stuart, an epoch when I thought... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett - 1825 - 480 pages
...emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the History of England ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of seventeen hundred years, I commenced with the accession of the house of Stuart ; an epoch when I thought... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 508 pages
...emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the History of England ; but being frightened with the notion...through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the accession of the House of Stuart, an epoch when, I thought, the misrepresentations of faction began... | |
 | 1826 - 622 pages
...Plata. RECEPTION OF HUME'S HISTOH Y OF EXGLAND. — I then formed the plan of writing the " History of England," but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of seventeen hundred years, I commenced with the accession of the . House of Stuart, an epoch when I thought... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the ' History of England;' but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of seventeen hundred years, I commenced with the accession of the house of Stuart, an epoch when I thought... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the ' History of England;' but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through и period of seventeen hundred years, I commenced with the accession ' Autobiography prefixed to '... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pages
...in Scotland, he then, as he tells us, formed the plan of writing the ' History of England ;' ' but, frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative...through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the accession of the House of Stuart, an epoch when I thought the misrepresentations of faction began chiefly... | |
| |
