 I consider besides that a man of sixty-five, by dying, cuts off only a few years of infirmities; and though I see many symptoms of my literary reputation's breaking out at last with additional lustre, I know that I could have but few years to enjoy it....  London Review - Page 2041767Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1794 - 610 pages
...1 fee many fymptoms of my literary reputation's breaking out at laft with additional luftre, 1 know that I could have but few years to enjoy it. It is difficult to be more detached from life than I sea ac prefent. To conclude hiflorically with my own character. I am, or rather was (for that is the... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1777 - 590 pages
...I fee many fymptoms of my literary reputation's breaking out at lad with additional luftre, I knew that I could have" but few years to enjoy it. It is difficult to be more detached from life than 1 am at prelent. ' To conclude hiflorically with my own character. I am, or rather was (for that is... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1779 - 734 pages
...I fee many fymptoms of my literary reputation's breaking out at laft with additional luftre, I knew that I could have but few years to enjoy it. It is...am at prefent. To conclude hiftorically with my own charafter. I am, or rather was (for that is the ftyle I muft now ufe in fpcaking of myfelf, which emboldens... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 452 pages
...I fee many fymptoms of my literary reputation's breaking out at laft with additional luftre, I knew that I could have but few years to enjoy it. It is...difficult to be more detached from life than I am at prcfent. To conclude historically with my own character, I am . or rather was ( for that is the ftyle... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 536 pages
...I fee many fymptoms of my literary reputation's breaking out at laft with additional luftre, I knew that I could have but few years to enjoy it. It is...difficult to be more detached from life than I am at prefcnt. To conclude hiftorically with my own character. I am, or rather was (for that is the ftyle... | |
 | History - 1794 - 614 pages
...fyraptorns of my literary reputation's breaking out at lait with additional luftre, I know that I couid have but few years to enjoy it. It is difficult to...detached from life than I am at prefent. To conclude hiñorically with my own charaner. I am, or rather was (for that is the ftyle ï mu ft now ufe in fpeaking... | |
 | James Hardie - Biography - 1802 - 486 pages
...see many symptoms of my literaly reputation breaking out, at last, with an additionaHustre, I know that I could have but few years to enjoy it. It is...difficult to be more detached from life than I am at present." His fears concerning the incurable nature of his disease proved true, for he died on the... | |
 | History - 1805 - 608 pages
...I see many symptoms of my literary reputation's breaking out at last with additional lustre, I know that I could have but few years to enjoy it. It is difficult to be ipore. detached from life than I am at present. To conclude historically with my own character, I am,... | |
 | Thomas Edward Ritchie - 1807 - 546 pages
...fymptoms of my U 2 literary literary reputation breaking out at laft with additional luftre, I knew that I could have but few years to enjoy it. It is...be more detached from life than I am at prefent." Such was the ftate of mind in which this extraordinary man fat down to compofe the biographic fketch... | |
 | Thomas Edward Ritchie - 1807 - 962 pages
...literary reputation breaking out at laft with additional luftre, I knew that I could have but fewyears to enjoy it. It is difficult to be more detached from life than I am at prefent." Such was the ftate of mind in which this extraordinary man fat down to compofe live biographic Iketch... | |
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