 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pagina’s
...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 invaded... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pagina’s
...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 invaded... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pagina’s
...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 invaded... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pagina’s
...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 invaded... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pagina’s
...unprecedented for a grave Historical work : ' the first impression was exhausted in a few days ; л second and here pirates of Dublin : the book was on every table, and almost on every toilet. ' His brotherhistorians,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pagina’s
...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 invaded... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 pagina’s
...the Roman Empire' appeared in 4to., and was received by the public in the most favourable manner : ' the first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand.' The second and third volumes, which terminated... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pagina’s
...the Roman Empire' appeared in 4to., and was received by the public in the most favourable manner : ' the first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand.' The second and third volumes, which terminated... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 pagina’s
...of the Roman Empire' appeared in 4to., and was received by the public in the most favourable manner: 'the first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand.' The sewnd and third volumes, which terminated... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pagina’s
...the Roman Empire' appeared in 4to., and was received jy the public in the most favourable manner : ' the first impression was exhausted in a few days ; a second and third jdition were scarcely adequate to the demand.' The second and third volumes, which terminated... | |
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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... 
