 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 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 - 1891 - 448 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 - 1891 - 456 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,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 470 pages
...the 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 the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My book was on every table... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...the 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 the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My book was on every table"... | |
 | Charles George Harper - Coaching (Transportation) - 1895 - 400 pages
...death, certainly his " Decline and Fall" had an extraordinary run when it first appeared. The entire impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third edition were scarce adequate to the demand, and it was said at the time that " the book was on every table and on... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1896 - 540 pages
...to describe the success of the work 1776. without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first <6 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 invaded by the pyrates of Dublin. My book was on every table,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1896 - 466 pages
...describe the success of the work me. without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first e i™**' 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 invaded by the pyrates of Dublin. My book was on every table,... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 558 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 - 1898 - 370 pages
...how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first 3° 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 invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My book was on every table,... | |
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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... 
