 | 1802 - 610 pages
...pleased with the success of both, as we will be with that of each other. I declare to you I have iiot of a long time had a more sensible pleasure than the...your History has given me within this fortnight." P. 31. " The great success of your book, beside its real merit, is forwarded by its prudence, and by... | |
 | Thomas Edward Ritchie - 1807 - 962 pages
...and will be pleafed with the fuccef? of both, as es we will be with that of each other. I declar« to you I have not, of a long time, had a more fenfible pleafure than the good reception your Hiftory has given me within this formight." Mr. HUME... | |
 | 1808 - 596 pages
...will be pleased with the success of both, as we will be with that of each other. I declare to you 1 have not, of a long time, had a more sensible pleasure...your History has given me within this fortnight.' pp. 118, 119. We transcribe the following well known letter, partly for the sake of some minor rules... | |
 | William Robertson - 1811 - 468 pages
...to have rent all our acquaintance " into parties, what a noble amusement we should have ex" hibited to the blockheads, which now they are likely to "...dated the 20th of the same month. " I am afraid that mv letters " will be tedious and disagreeable to you by their unifor" mity. Nothing but continued and... | |
 | William Robertson - 1817 - 452 pages
..." blockheads, which now they are likely to be " disappointed of. All the people whose friend" ship or judgment either of us value, are " friends to both,...tedious and disagreeable to you by their " uniformity. Nothing but continued and un" varied - accounts of the same thing must in " the end prove disgusting.... | |
 | William Robertson - 1822 - 506 pages
...and to have rent all our acquaintance into parties, what a no" ble amusement we should have exhibited to the blockheads, " which now they are likely to...your history has given me within this fortnight." "and disagreeable to you by their uniformity. Nothing but " continued and unvaried accounts of the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 410 pages
...pleased with the success of both, as we will be with that of each other. I declare to you I have not for a long time had a more sensible pleasure than the...tedious and disagreeable to you by their uniformity. Nothing but continued and unvaried accounts of the same thing must in the end prove disgusting. Yet... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 416 pages
...pleased with the success of both, as we will be Avith that of each other. I declare to you I have not for a long time had a more sensible pleasure than the...tedious and disagreeable to you by their uniformity. Nothing but continued and unvaried accounts of the same thing must in the end prove disgusting. Yet... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 pages
...pleased with the success of both, as we will be with that of each other. I declare to you I have not for a long time had a more sensible pleasure than the...tedious and disagreeable to you by their uniformity. Nothing but continued and unvaried accounts of the same thing must in the end prove disgusting. Yet... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1835 - 1294 pages
...friendship or judgment either of us value, are friends to both, and will be t Andrew StrnlMD, Eiq. MP pleased with the success of both, as we will be with...tedious and disagreeable to you by their uniformity. Nothing but continued and unvaried accounts of the same thing must in the end prove disgusting. Yet... | |
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I been such fools as to have given way to jealousy, to have entertained animosity and malignity against each other, and to have rent all our acquaintance into parties, what a noble amusement we should have exhibited to the blockheads, which now they are... 
