 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...history was given to the world. Its success was almost unprecedented fur a grave historical work : native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern o was scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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 - 1846 - 406 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 - 1846 - 458 pages
...at a loss how to describe the success of the work without betraying the vanity of the writer. Tj^e first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second...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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...volume of his history, the success of which was, for a grave historical work, almost unprecedented. ' The first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and a third edition was scarcely adequate to the demand, as the book was found on every table and almost... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 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,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Book industries and trade Great Britain History - 1854 - 350 pages
...modestly tells us, " 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." Thomson's ' Seasons '... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 516 pages
...tribunitian powers. Grave scholars wrote dreary commendations. " The first impression," he writes, " was exhausted in a few days; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand; and my bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My book was on every table"—tables... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...volume of his history, the success of which was, for a grave historical work, almost unprecedented. ' The first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and a third edition was scarcely adequate to the demand, as the book was found on every table and almost... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 572 pages
...modestly tells us, ' 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.' Thomson's ' Seasons '... | |
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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... 
