 | John Aikin - 1803 - 770 pages
...wondered at that he was much elated with the success it really met with, which he thus describes : " The first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and a third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and die bookseller's property was twice invaded... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ;...third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My book was on every table,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ;...third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My book was on every table,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ;...third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My hook was on every table,... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days;...third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My book was on every table,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying tbe vanity »f the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third • edition was scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller's properly was twice invaded by the pirates... | |
 | William Goodhugh - Best books - 1827 - 402 pages
...numberwas doubled by the prophetic taste of Mr. Straban ; the first impression was exhausted in a Tew days, a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand. My book was on every table, and almost on every toilette, nor was the general voice disturbed by the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ;...third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My book was on every table,... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pages
...manifesto and in vindication of the justice of the British arms. In 1776 the first volume of the ' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' appeared in...the Western Empire, were published in 1781. In 1783 he left England, and retired to Lausanne, to reside permanently with his friend M. Deyverdun. From... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 pages
...manifesto and in vindication of the justice of the British arms. In 1776 tho first volume of the ' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' appeared in...edition were scarcely adequate to the demand.' The sewnd and third volumes, which terminated the history of the fill of the Western Empire, were published... | |
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I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand; and the bookseller's property was twice... 
