 Your request that I would send you an account of my uncle's death, in order to transmit a more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgments ; for, if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well assured,...  Vesuvius - Page 13by John Phillips - 1869 - 355 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - Lawyers - 1807 - 424 pages
...audience, as well as the author, should be of sound intellects. Farewell. LETTER XVI. |. TO TACITUS. YOUR request, that I would send you an account of...transmit a more exact relation of it to posterity, merits my acknowledgments ; for, if the glorious circumstances which occasioned this accident shall... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1809 - 620 pages
...audience, as well as the author, should be of sound intellects. Farewell. LETTER XVI. . TO TACITUS. YOUR request, that I would send you an account of my uncle's death, in order to transmit a more oxact relation of it to posterity, merits my acknowledgments ; for, if the glorious circumstances which... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...sound judgment, but that he takes care his audience have so too. Farewel. LETTER XLVII. TO TACITUS. YOUR request that I would send you an account of my...transmit a more exact relation of it to posterity, merits my acknowledgments ; for, if the glorious circumstances which occasioaed this accident shall... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 592 pages
...are numbered sixteen and twenty in the sixth book of bit epistolary collection. " TO TACITUS. " You u request that I would send you an account of my uncle's...shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it I am well assured will be rendered for ever illustrious. And notwithstanding he perished by a misfortune,... | |
 | C. Gros - French language - 1818 - 492 pages
...nothing, than to (be doing of nothing)""". Farewell. [x] que personne, 137 ; [y] pro7. Pliny to Tacitus. Your request*, that I would send you (an account)-...more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgments'1; for, if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, (the glory of)* it, I am... | |
 | Edwin Atherstone - 1824 - 358 pages
...effects of terror, which might otherwise appear unnatural or overcharged. i PLINY THE YOUNGER TO TACITUS* YOUR request that I would send you an account of my...more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgements; for if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1836 - 354 pages
...Tacitus, which record the death of his uncle, who fell a victim to his inquiring spirit and humanity. " Your request that I would send you an account of my...shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well assured, will be rendered for ever illustrious. And notwithstanding he perished by a misfortune,... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1836 - 358 pages
...Tacitus, which record the death of his uncle, who fell a victim to his inquiring spirit and humanity. " Your request that I would send you an account of my...shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well assured, will be rendered for ever illustrious. And notwithstanding he perished by a misfortune,... | |
 | John Miley - Christianity and culture - 1843 - 382 pages
...circumstantial and accurate, as might be expected from an eye-witness. " Your request," he says, " that I should send you an account of my uncle's death, in order...shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it I am well assured will be rendered for ever illustrious. And notwithstanding he perished by a misfortune,... | |
 | John P. Hiester - Europe - 1845 - 298 pages
...TRAVEL. Letters of Pliny the younger to Tacitus, containing an account of the destruction of Pompeii. "Your request that I would send you an account of...more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgements ; for, if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well... | |
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