 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 pages
...poets, 3. orators, and 4. philofophers, in a chronological feries, from the days of Plautus and Salluil, to the decline of the language and empire of Rome: and this plan, in the laft twenty-feven months of my refidence at Laufanne (January 1756 — April 1758% I nearly accompliflred.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...3, orators, and 4. philofophers, in a chronological feries, from the days of Plautus and Salluft , to the decline of the language and empire of Rome : and this plan , in the laft twenty-feven months of my refidence at Laufanne (January 1756 — April 1758), I nearly accomplifhed.... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pages
...3. Orators ; and, 4. Philofophers, in a chronological feries, from the days of Plautus and Salluft, to the decline of the language and empire of Rome ; and this plan, in the laft tweutyfcven months of my refidence at Laufanne (January, iT(6 — April, 1758) I nearly accompli... | |
 | 1800 - 776 pages
...3. orators, and 4. philofophers, in я chronological feries, from the days of Plautus and Salluft, to the decline of the language and empire of Rome; and this plan, in the latí twenty-feven months of my refidence at Laulanne (January, 1756 —April, 1758), 1 nearly accompliihed.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 786 pages
...poets, 3. orators, and 4 pbilofophers, in a chronological feries, from the days of Plautos and Salluft, to the decline of the language and empire of Rome; and this plan, in the lalt twenty-feven months of my refidence at Laufanne (January, 1756 — April, 1758), 1 marly accomplilhed.... | |
 | 1807 - 772 pages
...3. orators, and 4. philosophers, in я chronological series, trom the days of Plautus and Sallusr, to the decline of the language and empire of Rome; and 'this plan, in the last t wen ty.se ven months of my resi. dence at Lausanne (January, 1756 —April, 1758), I «early accomplished.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...this great author, a library of eloquence and reason, I formed a more extensive plan of reviewing the Latin classics, • under the four divisions of, —...chronological series, from the days of Plautus and Sal) usl- to the decline of the language and empire of Rome : and this plan, in the last twenty-seven... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...this great author, a library of eloquence and reason, I formed a more extensive plan of reviewing the Latin classics,* under the four divisions of, — 1, historians; 2, poets; 3, oratore ; and 4, philosophers ; in a chronological series, from the days of Plautus and Sallust to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...this great author, a library of eloquence and reason, I formed a more extensive plan of reviewing the Latin classics,* under the four divisions of, 1. Historians,...accomplished. Nor was this review, however rapid, either liasty or superficial. I indulged myself in a second, and even a third perusal of Terence, Virgil,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...this great author, a library of eloquence and reason, I formed a more extensive plan of reviewing the Latin classics,* under the four divisions of, 1. Historians,...of Rome : and this plan, in the last twenty-seven" montlis of my residence at Lausanne (January, 1756 — April, 1758), I nearly accomplished. Nor was... | |
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After finishing this great author, a library of eloquence and reason, I formed a more extensive plan of reviewing the Latin classics,* under the four divisions of, 1. Historians, 2. Poets, 3. Orators, and 4. Philosophers, in a chronological series, from... 
