 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...public. No fooner was 1 fettled in my houfe and librarv, than I undertook the compofhion of the firft volume of my Hiftory. At the outfet all was dark and doubtful; even the title of the work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire , the limits of the introduction , the divifion of the chapters,... | |
 | English literature - 1796 - 616 pages
...fet'Jed in my houfe and library, than I undertook the composition of the firft volume of my liiftory. At the outfet all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true £Era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of the introduction, the divifion of the chapters,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English letters - 1796 - 520 pages
...public. No fooher was I fettled in my houfe and library, than I undertook the compofition of the firft volume of my Hiftory. At the outfet all was dark and doubtful; even the tide of the work, the true sera of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction,... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pages
...fays, " No fooner was I fettled in my houfe and library, than I undertook the compofition of the firft volume of my hiftory. At the outfet, all was dark...Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduftion, and- the divifion of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1807 - 606 pages
...afterwards inserted in some of his other works. Even Gibbon tells us of his Roman history " at the outset all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true aera of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...house and library, than I undertook the composition of the first volume of my history. At the outset all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true fera of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...house and library, than I undertook the composition of the first volume of my History. At the outset all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true :era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1824 - 536 pages
...afterwards inserted in some of his other works. Even Gibbon tells us of his Roman History, " at the outset all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true aera of the decline anS fall of the empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...house and library, than I undertook the composition of the first volume of my history. At the outset all was dark and doubtful — even the title of the work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters,... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...house and library, than I undertook the composition of the first volume of my history. At the outset all was dark and doubtful — even the title of the work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters,... | |
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History. At the outset all was dark and doubtful; even the title of the work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative; and I was often tempted to... 
