| Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 pàgines
...of that writer. Hume told him very candidly and justly, that his study of the French writers led him into a style more poetical and figurative, and more...than our language seems to admit of in historical composition. We find, hi his correspondence, that during his first residence abroad, he had almost... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pàgines
...of that writer. Hume told him very candidly and justly, that his study of the French writers led him into a style more poetical and figurative, and more...than our language seems to admit of in historical composition. We find, in his correspondence, that during his first residence abroad, he had almost... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pàgines
...Robertson is the better writer." Hume said, in a letter to Gibbon, " Your use of the French tongue has led you into a style more poetical and figurative,...than our language seems to admit of in historical composition : for such is the practice of the French writers, particularly the more modern ones, who... | |
| sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pàgines
...Robertson is-the better writer." Hume said, in a letter to Gibbon, " Your use of the French tongue has led you into a style more poetical and figurative,...than our language seems to admit of in historical composition : for such is the practice of the French writers, particularly the more modern ones, who... | |
| James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pàgines
...Robertson is the better writer." Hume said, in a letter to Gibbon, " Your use of the French tongue has led you into a style more poetical and figurative,...than our language seems to admit of in historical composition : for such is the practice of the French writers, particularly the more modern ones, who... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 882 pàgines
...therefore, triumph in the present diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation...language. " Your use of the French tongue has also led yon into a style more poetical and figurative, and more highly coloured, than our language seems to... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pàgines
...therefore, triumph in the present diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation of barbarians, promise a superior ttability and duration to the English language. " Your nae of the French tongue has also led yon into... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pàgines
...therefore, triumph in the present diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation...historical productions : for such is the practice o French writers, particularly the more recent ones, who illuminate their pictures more than custom... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pàgines
...therefore, triumph in the present diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation...led you into a style more poetical and figurative, aud more highly coloured, than our language seems to admit of in historical productions : for such... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 pàgines
...therefore, triumph in the present diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation...led you into a style more poetical and figurative, aud more highly coloured, than our language seems to admit of in historical productions : for .such... | |
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