 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 542 pages
...the first volume of the ' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' appeared in 4to., and was received jy the public in the most favourable manner : ' the first...impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third jdition were scarcely adequate to the demand.' The second and third volumes, which terminated the history... | |
 | 1839 - 366 pages
...bad been stinted to five hundred, till the number was doubled by the prophetic taste of Mr. Strahan. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ;...third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand. My book was on every table, and almost on every toiette ; nor was the general voice disturbed by any... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 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, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 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, Henry Hart Milman - Literature - 1840 - 386 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,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...his Memoirs, "' 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,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...his Memoirs, " how to describe the success of the work w1thout betraying the vanity of the wr1ter. 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,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 632 pages
...his Memoirs, " 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,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...additional volumes, which completed the work, not till 1788. Of the first volume, the author tells us, " the first impression was exhausted in a few days ;...third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ;" and a scarcely diminished interest followed the great undertaking to its close, notwithstanding... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...history was given to the world. Its success was almost unprecedented for a grave historical work : ' id in mist, and on the left Went down into the sea. And the good south-wind s was scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates... | |
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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... 
