 | Robert Bisset - 636 páginas
...declining. I returned to Edinburgh in 1769, very opulent, (for I possessed a revenue of loool. a-vear) healthy, and though somewhat stricken in years, with...ease, and of seeing the increase of my reputation.' During the remainder of his life nothing happened that he esteemed of sufficient importance to mention... | |
 | 1805 - 608 páginas
...increase of rr.y reputation. In. spring, 1770, I was struck with a disorder in my bowels, which, ал first, gave me no alarm, but has since, as I apprehend...it, become mortal and incurable. I now reckon upon a spej-dy dissolution. I have sufi'ered very hule pain from ray disorder; and, what is more strange,... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 páginas
...from declining. . I returned to Edinburgh in 1769, very opulent (for I possessed a revenue of £1000 a year), healthy and though somewhat stricken in years,...ease, and of seeing the increase of my reputation." . • One of the most remarkable transactions in Mr. Hume's life, was his dispute with Rousseau, in... | |
 | 1814 - 538 páginas
...He returned to Edinburgh in 1769, " very opulent," he says, " for he possessed a revenue of lOOOl. a year, healthy, and, though somewhat stricken in years, with the prospect of enjoying long his ease." In the spring of 1775, he was struck with a disorder in his bowels ; which, though it gave... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 540 páginas
...decline. He returned to Edinburgh in 1769, "very opulent," he says, " for he possessed a revenue of looo/. a year, healthy, and, though somewhat stricken in years, with the prospect of enjoying long his ease." In the spring of 1775, he was struck with a disorder in his bowels ; which, though it gave... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett - 1825 - 480 páginas
...me from declining. I returned to Edinburgh in 1769 very opulent (for I possessed a revenue of 1000/. a year), healthy, and though somewhat stricken in...seeing the increase of my reputation. In spring 1775 I was struck with a disorder in my bowels, which at first gave me no alarm, but has since, as I apprehend... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 828 páginas
...rising New Town ; "very opulent,"he says in his Life," (for I possessed a revenue of £1000 a-year) healthy, and though somewhat stricken in years, with...ease, and of seeing the increase of my reputation." And all this, and more, was realized. In vain Madame de Boufflers beckoned him to Paris. He walked... | |
 | 1846 - 608 páginas
...he returned to Edinburgh, " very opulent," he says, " for I possessed a revenue of .£1000 a-year, healthy, and, though somewhat stricken in years, with...ease, and of seeing the increase of my reputation." His friends in France did what they could to make him live there. He, however, returned to his old... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845 - 594 páginas
...spring of 1775, he tells us, he was seized with a disease in his bowels. " At first," he says, " it gave me no alarm, but has since, as I apprehend it, become mortal and incurable. I now," adds the philosopher, reckon on a speedy dissolution. I have suffered very little pain from my disorder,... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1845 - 586 páginas
...spring of 1775, he tells us, he was seized with a disease in his bowels. " At first," he says, " it gave me no alarm, but has since, as I apprehend it, become mortal and incurable. I now," adds the philosopher, reckon on a speedy dissolution. I have suffered very little pain from my disorder,... | |
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In spring, 1775, I was struck with a disorder in my bowels, which at first gave me no alarm, but has since, as I apprehend it, become mortal and incurable. I now reckon upon a speedy dissolution. I have suffered very little pain from my disorder; and... 
