 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 páginas
...additional volumes, which completed the work, not till 1788. Of the first volume, the author tells us, " the first impression was exhausted in a few days ;...third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and a scarcely diminished interest followed the great undertaking to its close, notwithstanding the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 páginas
...additional volumes, which completed the work, not till 1 788. Of the first volume, the author tells us, " the first impression was exhausted in a few days ;...third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and a scarcely diminished interest followed the great undertaking to its close, notwithstanding the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 páginas
...additional volumes, which completed the work, not till 1788. Of the first volume, the author tells us. " the first impression was exhausted in a few days ;...third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and a scarcely diminished ifcterest followed the great undertaking to its close, notwithstanding... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 344 páginas
...I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ;...third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My book was on every table,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 514 páginas
...manifesto and iu vindication of the justice of the British arms. In 1776 the firat volume of the ' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire * appeared in...second and third edition were scarcely adequate to tho demand." The second and third volumes, which terminated the history of the fall of the Western... | |
 | 1869 - 890 páginas
...copies ; but Mr. Strahan, the publisher, providentially doubled the number. Such was the demand that " the first impression was exhausted in a few days ;...third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the booksellers property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My book was on every table,... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1869 - 798 páginas
...; but Mr. Strahan, the publisher, pro videntially doubled the number. Such was tho demand that "th* first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second...third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the booksellers property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My book TJ, on every table,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 páginas
...I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ;...second and third edition were scarcely adequate to plus importantes, mais il ne s'est jamais trouvd le courage, ni le taknt, de parler dans une assemblee... | |
 | 1869 - 1188 páginas
...copies; but Mr. S traban, the publisher, providentially doubled the number. Such was the demand that "the first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and thirJ edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller a property was twice invaded... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 páginas
...writes Gibbon," without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression (of the first volume) was exhausted in a few days; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin, My book was on^every table,... | |
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I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand; and the bookseller's property was twice... 
