 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
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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...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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 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 1 700 yearSj/I commenced with the accession of the House of Stuart, an epoch when, I thought, the misrepresentations... | |
 | Sir Francis Palgrave - 1922 - 674 pages
...library 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 " 1 700 years , I commenced with the accession of the House of Stuart, " an epoch when I thought the... | |
 | David Hume - 1998 - 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...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... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 468 pages
...authors themselves usually are. Rev.} large library.6 I then formed the plan of writing the History of England; but being frightened with the notion of...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... | |
 | Amélie Oksenberg Rorty - 2003 - 544 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...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 - 2006 - 629 pages
...gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the History of Piigland ; 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,... | |
 | Stephen Buckle - 2007 - 223 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...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... | |
 | 1844 - 622 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... | |
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