| John Aikin - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 666
...received a severe mortification from the neglect attending his first publication, which " fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots." He was not, however, discouraged, but proceeded in his course of studies, and in 1742 printed at Edinburgh,... | |
| John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...literary attempt," Mr. Hume remarks, " was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. !t fell dead born from the press, without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots." In the year 1741, he publishedat Edinburgh the first part of his " Essays." This work met with a more... | |
| 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...Never literary attempt was more unfortunate rtian my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born Jrom the press, without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots. But being naturally of a cheerful and sanguine temper, I very soon recovered the blow, and prosecuted... | |
| Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...account of his " life), was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human " Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching " such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the " zealots." It was then Mr Hume's object, as in the foregoing letter is explicitly owned, to bring about nothing... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...never literary attempt was more unfortunate than the. publication of this treatise. It fell dead bvrn from the press, without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots; but being naturally of a cheerful and sanguine temper, 1 very soon recovered the blow." He entertained... | |
| 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 1142
...».¡y-, be, " was more unfortunate than my " Treatise on Human Nature. It " fell dead-born (still-born) from " the press, without reaching such " distinction,...as even to excite a '" murmur among the zealots." " After publishing his Treatise, our author retired to Ninevvells, where his mother resided, and where... | |
| 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 708
...more unfortunate. " It tell," he fays, " dead lorn from the prefs, without reaching fuch diflinclion as even to excite a murmur among the zealots." He...however, " that being naturally of a cheerful and fjnguine terpner, he foon recovered the blow ;" by which he would have us to undedtand, that his literary... | |
| Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my " Treatise of Human Nature." It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots. But being naturally of a cheerful and sanguine temper, I very sb'on recovered the blow, and prosecuted... | |
| 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 704
...unfortunate. " It fell," he fays, " dead barn from the prefs, without reaching fuch di(!in£tion as evcfi to excite a murmur among the zealots." He adds, however, " that being naturally oi a cheerful and fanguine temper, he foon recovered the blow ;" by which he would have us to Underftand,... | |
| 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...the avowal of the author himself, was any literary attempt more unsuccessful. " It fell," be says, " dead born from the press, without reaching such distinction...work quite unnoticed. It was criticised with great ability in the only review of that period, " The Works of the Learned ;" and from a perusal of the... | |
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