 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...of five, quartos. 1. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent to the press. 2. Not a sheet has been seen by any human eyes, except those of the author and the printer : the faults and the merits are exclusively my own.* I cannot... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent to the press. 2. Not a sheet has boen seen by any human eyes, excepting those of the author and the printer : the faults and the merits are exclusively mj own."* In order to superintend the publication of the three last volumes,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 548 pages
...will add two facts, which have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or at least of five quartos. 1. My rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy,...printer , the faults and merits are exclusively my own *." With the manuscript copy of these volumes he set out from Lausanne, and at the end of a fortnight... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...composition of six, or at least of five quartos. 1. My rough manuscript, without any intermediate cop}', has been sent to press. 2. Not a sheet has been seen...; the faults and merits are exclusively my own*." With the manuscript copy of these volumes he set out from Lausanne, and at the end of a fortnight arrived... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent to the press. 2. Not a sheet has been seen bv by any human eyes, excepting those of the author and the printer : the faults and the merits are exclusively my own.* I cannot help recollecting a much more extraordinary fact, which... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...have seldom occurred in the composition of six, or, at least, five quarto volumes : 1. My rough MS., without any intermediate copy, has been sent to press....any human eyes, excepting those of the author and of the printer ; the faults and merits are exclusively my own. — Gibbon's Common Place Book. *16.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...of five, quartos. 1. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent to the press. 2. Not a sheet has been seen by any human eyes...those of the author and the printer : the faults and the merits are exclusively my own.* * Extract from Mr Gibbon' t Common-place Book. The IVth Volume... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...of five, quartos. 1. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent to the press. 2. Not a sheet has been seen by any human eyes...those of the author and the printer : the faults and the merits are exclusively my own.* * Extract from Mr Gibbon' » Common-place Book. The IVth Volume... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...of five, quartos. I. My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, bus been sent to the press. 2. Not a sheet has been seen by any human eyes...excepting those of the author and the printer ; the faulte and the merits are exclusively my own." Extract from Mr. Gibbon's Commonplace Book. «The I... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...quartos: First — My rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent to pre^. Second — Not a sheet has been seen by any human eyes excepting...printer. The faults and merits are exclusively my own." In April, 1783, the publication of the concluding volumes took place, under his own superintendence,... | |
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My first rough manuscript, without any intermediate copy, has been sent to the press. (2) Not a sheet has been seen by any human eyes, excepting those of the author and the printer: the faults and the merits are exclusively my own. 
