 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 pages
...for every fort of old eftablifhment, which he marked in various ways fometimes rather ludicroufly ; and I recollect, in a circle where French affairs were the topic, and fome Portuguefe prefent, he, feemingly with ferioufnefs, argued in favour of the inquifition at Lifbon,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...Reign of Terror : — ' He became a warm and zealous advocate for every sort of old establishment. I recollect in a circle where French affairs were...present moment, give up even that old establishment.' Gibbon's Misc. Works, i. 328. One of Gibbon's correspondents told him in 1792, that the Wealth of Nations... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...Reign of Terror : — ' He became a warm and zealous advocate for every sort of old establishment. I recollect in a circle where French affairs were...present moment, give up even that old establishment.' Gibbon's Misc. Works, i. 328. One of Gibbon's correspondents told him in 1792, that the Wealth of Nations... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...opinion fixed, as to the danger of hasty innovation, that he became a warm and zealous advocate for every sort of old establishment, which he marked in...with seriousness, argued in favour of the Inquisition tion at Lisbon, and said he would not, at the present moment, give up even that old establishment.... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...one of its most detestable consequences — the Inquisition : " 1 recollect," says Lord Sheffield, " in a circle where French affairs were the topic, and,...present moment, give up even that old establishment." MYSTIFICATION THE WHITE PATIENT. " There 'sa knot, a gang, a pack, a conspiracy against me." " Well,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...one of its most detestable consequences — the Inquisition : " I recollect," says Lord Sheffield, " in a circle where French affairs were the topic, and...present moment, give up even that old establishment." MYSTIFICATION THE WHITE FATIENT. " There 'в я knot, a gang, a pack, a conspiracy against ¿ne." "... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...consequences — the Inquisition : " I recollect," says Lord Sheffield, " in a circle where French aflairs were the topic, and some Portuguese present, he seemingly,...present moment, give up even that old establishment." MYSTIFICATION THE WHITE PATIENT. " There 'sa knot, a gang, a pack, a conspiracy against me." " Well,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...opinion fixed as to the danger of hasty innovation, that he became a warm and zealous advocate for every sort of old establishment, which he marked in...said he would not, at the present moment, give up that old establishment. It may perhaps not be quite uninteresting to the readers of these Memoirs,... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...opinion fixed as to the danger of hasty innovation, that he became a warm and zealous advocate for every sort of old establishment, which he marked in...said he would not, at the present moment, give up that old establishment. It may perhaps not be quite uninteresting to the readers of these Memoirs,... | |
 | Samuel Thomas Bloomfield - 1828 - 706 pages
...ingenious sophistry, but from hardiness of assertion, coarseness of language, and mysticism in doctrine. -] It may not be quite uninteresting to the reader to know that, hurried forward by a scarcely temperate ardour, the Author's exertions so far exceeded his strength... | |
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... innovation, that he became, a warm and zealous advocate for every sort of old establishment, which he marked in various ways, sometimes rather ludicrously ; and I recollect, in a circle where French affairs were the topic, and some Portuguese present,... 
