 | Curiosities and wonders - 1796 - 622 pages
...higt"^ coloured, than our language feems to admit of in hiftorical productions; for fuch is the praftice of French writers, particularly the more recent ones, who illuminate their pictures more than cuftom will permit us. On the whole, youi. hiftory, in my opinion, is written with fpirit and judgment... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...present diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation of Barbarians, promise a superior...French writers, particularly the more recent ones, who illummate their pictures more than custom will permit us. On the whole, your History, in my opinion,... | |
 | Thomas Edward Ritchie - 1807 - 546 pages
...and more highly coloured, than our language feems to admit of in hiftorical productions : for fuch is the practice of French writers, particularly the...recent ones, who illuminate their pictures more than tuftom will permit us. On the whole, your hiftory, in my opinion, is written with fpirit and judgment;... | |
 | Thomas Edward Ritchie - 1807 - 962 pages
...highly coloured, than our language feems to admit of in hiftorical productions : for fuch is the pra&ice of French writers, particularly the more recent ones, who illuminate their pictures more than cuftom will permit us. On the whole, your hiftory, in my opinion, is written with fpirit and judgment;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 548 pages
...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 - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...diffusion of their tongue. Our solid and increasing establishment» in America, where we need leet dread the inundation of barbarians, promise a superior...you into a style more poetical and figurative, and fltore highlv coloured, than our lauguaee seem? to admit oí' in historical productions : lor inch... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1834 - 394 pages
...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... | |
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Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation of Barbarians, promise a superior stability and duration to the English language. 
