| Pliny (the Younger.) - 1807 - Počet stránok 424
...was, could find time to compose such a number of books ; and some of them too upon abstruse subjects. But your surprise will rise still higher, when you...an advocate; that he died in his fifty-sixth year; that, from the time of his quitting the bar, to his death, he was employed partly in the execution... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - Počet stránok 316
...he was, could find time to compose such a number of books ; and some of them upon abstruse subjects. But your surprise will rise still higher, when you...the profession of an advocate ; that he died in his fifty -sixth year; that, from the time of his quitting the bar to his death, be was employed partly... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - Počet stránok 540
...was, could find time to compose such a number of books ; and some of them too upon abstruse subjects. Your surprise will rise still higher, when you hear,...the profession of an advocate, that he died in his. 56th year, that from the time of his quitting the bar to his death he was employed in the highest posts,... | |
| Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - Počet stránok 618
...much, and often upon such difficult subjects. You will be still more surprised when you are informed, that for some time he engaged in the profession of...; and that, from the time of his quitting the bar to his death, he was busily occupied in the execution of the highest posts, and in the service of his... | |
| Picture gallery - 1824 - Počet stránok 234
...find time to compose such a number of books as he did ; and some of them, too, upon abstruse subjects. But your surprise will rise still higher, when you...in the profession of an advocate; that he died in the fifty-sixth year of his age; that, from the time of his quitting the bar, to his death, he was... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1839 - Počet stránok 346
...criticism in eight books, concerning Ambiguity in Expression. He completed the history tvhich Aufidius Bassus left unfinished, and added to it thirty books;...the highest employments, and in the service of his pi-ince. But he had a quick apprehension, joined to unwearied application. Before day-break he used... | |
| Charles Anthon - 1841 - Počet stránok 664
...could find time to com-4 pose such a number of books, and some of them, too, upon abstruse subjects. But your surprise will rise still higher when you...in the profession of an advocate ; that he died in nie fifty-sixth year ; that, from the time of his quitting the bar to his death, he was employed in... | |
| William Jardine, P. J. Selby - 1850 - Počet stránok 370
...was, could find time to compose such a number of books, and some of them, too, upon abstruse subjects. But your surprise will rise still higher, when you...engaged in the profession of an advocate ; that he died at the age of fifty-six ; that from the time of his quitting the bar to his death, he was employed... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee, Edward Nares - 1856 - Počet stránok 332
...books of natural history, a work of great comEass and learning, and almost as various as Nature erself. You will wonder how a man so engaged as he was could...advocate ; that he died in his fifty-sixth year ; and thiit from the time of his quitting the bar till his death, he was employed in the execution of the... | |
| Joseph Banvard - 1855 - Počet stránok 412
...much, and often upon such difficult subjects. You will be still more surprised when you are informed, that for some time he engaged in. the profession of...; and that, from the time of his quitting the bar to his death, he was busily occupied in the execution of the highest posts, and in the service of his... | |
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