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" Advocates chose me their Librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the History of England... "
The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 647
1789
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London Review, Volume 5

1767 - 572 pages
...the command of a large library ||. ' I then formed the plan of writing the Hi (lory of England; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the acceffion of the Houfe of Stuart, an epoch when, I thought, the mifreprefentations...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 56

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1777 - 584 pages
...gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the Hiftory of England ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with theacccffion of the Houfe of Stuart, an epoch when, I thought, the mifreprefentadons...
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The Life of David Hume, Esq

David Hume, Adam Smith - Philosophers - 1777 - 138 pages
...gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the Hiftory of England ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the acceffion of the Houfe of Stuart, an epoch when, I thought, the mifreprefentations...
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the monthly review or literary journal

SEVERAL HANDS - 1777 - 590 pages
...gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the Hiftory of England ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the acceflion of the Houfe of Stuart, an epoch when, I thought,'the mifreprefentations...
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Annual Register, Volume 20

Edmund Burke - History - 1779 - 734 pages
...gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing t)A tiiftory of England; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a- narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the acctffion of the Houfe of Stuart, an epoch when, I thought, the mifreprefentations...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 80

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1789 - 742 pages
...refulting from it, muft, we think, occafion an anticlimax in the importance of the fubjedt. The Abbe pleads the example of Mr. Hume, who began his Hiftory...different races of kings, as by the gradations made in civilizatwn and manners. The laft article of this part of the work relates to a difpute, referred to...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the ..., Volume 1

David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 536 pages
...gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the Hiftory of England; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the acceffion of the houfe of Stuart, an epoch when I thought the mifreprefentations...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 1

David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 452 pages
...gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the Hiftory of England ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1700 years, I commenced with the acceflion of the Houfe of Stuart , an epoch when, I thought, the mifreprefentations...
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 39

English literature - 1777 - 750 pages
...the command of a Lrge library. I then formed the plan of writing the Hiftory of England ; but beinp frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of 1 7 со уелгэ, I coinmenrc-d with the arccáioú uf the houfi uf Stuart ; an epoch when, I thought,...
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Solitude. Or the Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the ..., Volume 2

Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1799 - 390 pages
...command of a large library. He formed about this period the plan of writing THE HISTOIY OF ENGLAND ; but being frightened with the notion of continuing a narrative through a period of feven* teen hundred years, he commenced with the acceffion of the Houfe tf Stuart ; an epoch when he thought...
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