| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 페이지
...omitted : — "I was, 1 own, sanguine in my expectations of the success of this work. I thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected...proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment: I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation : English, Scotch, and... | |
| University magazine - 1846 - 780 페이지
...omitted : — " I was, I own, sanguine in my expectations of the success of this work. I thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected...proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment : I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation : English, Scotch, and... | |
| John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 512 페이지
...feeling : — " I was, I own, sanguine in my expectations of the success of this work. I thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected...proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment : I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; English, Scotch, and... | |
| 1847 - 586 페이지
...nor the opinion of all his correspondents. " I was sanguine in my expectation of success. I thought I was the only historian that had at once neglected...and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices." (I. 414.) "I maybe liable to the reproach of ignorance, but I am certain of escaping that of partiality.'... | |
| 1847 - 648 페이지
...again, published six years later, he tells us that, thinking lie -«•«.« the only historian who had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices, he " expected proportional applause ; but miserable was my disappointment. I was assailed with one... | |
| John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 페이지
...' History of England.' ... I •was, I own, sanguine in my expectations of the success of this work As the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected...proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment: I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation. English, Scotch, and Irish,... | |
| David Hume - 1851 - 532 페이지
...• place. I was, I own, sanguine in my expectations of the success of this work. I thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected...proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment ; I . was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; English, Scotch,... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 페이지
...take place. I was, I own, sanguine in my expectations of the success of tins work. 1 thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected...proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment: I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation; English, Scotch, and Irish,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1853 - 510 페이지
...even Hume himself sanguine in his expectations, — he tells his oxn tale : — " I thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected...authority, and the cry of popular prejudices ; and, as the suhject was suited to every capacity, I expected proportional applause. But miserahle was my disappointment... | |
| David Hume - 1856 - 536 페이지
...take place. I was, I own, sanguine in my expectations of the success of this work. I thought that I was the only historian that had at once neglected...proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment ; I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; Englishj Scotch, and... | |
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