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" I confess, discouraged; and had not the war been at that time breaking out between France and England, I had certainly retired to some provincial town of the former kingdom, have changed my name, and never more have returned to my native country. "
The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cęsar, to the Revolution ... - Page 7
by David Hume - 2010 - 566 pages
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The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 20

Edmund Burke - History - 1794 - 610 pages
...the war been at that time breaking oat between France and England, I had certainly retired to fome provincial town of the former kingdom, have changed...more have returned to my native country. But as this fcheme was not now practicable, and the fubfequent volume was confiderably advanced, I refolved to...
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London Review, Volume 5

1767 - 572 pages
...the war been at that time breaking out between France and England, I had certainly retired to Tome provincial town of the former kingdom, have 'changed...more have returned to my native country. But as this fchcfme was not now practicable, and the fubfequent volume was conliderably advanced, I refolved to...
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the monthly review or literary journal

SEVERAL HANDS - 1777 - 590 pages
...the war been at that time breaking out between France and England, I had certainly retired to fome provincial town of the former kingdom, have changed...more have returned to my native country. But as this fcheme was not now practicable, and thefubfequent volume was considerably advanced, I refolvcd to pick...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 56

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1777 - 584 pages
...the war been at that time breaking out between France and England, I had certainly retired to fome provincial town of the former kingdom, have changed...never more have returned to my native country. But as tl.is fchcme was not now practicable, and tke fubfequent volume was considerably advanced, I refolvcd...
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The Life of David Hume, Esq

David Hume, Adam Smith - Philosophers - 1777 - 138 pages
...the war been at that time breaking out between France and England, I had certainly retired to fome provincial town of the former kingdom, have changed my name, and never more have returned to nay native country. But as this Ccheme was not now practicable,, and the fubfequent volume was con*...
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Annual Register, Volume 20

Edmund Burke - History - 1779 - 734 pages
...between France and England, I had certainly retired to 'ome provincial town of the former king, dom, have changed my name, and never more have returned to my native country. But as this fcheme was not now praclicable, and the fubfequent volume was confiderably advanced, I refolved to...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...Millar told me,' he continues, ' that in a twelvemonth he sold only forty-five copies of it. ... I was, I confess, discouraged, and had not the war at that...and never more have returned to my native country.' Ib. p. 6. Only one of his works, his Political Discourses, was ' successful on the first publication.'...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution ...

David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 452 pages
...the war been at that time breaking out between France and England , I had certainly retired to fome provincial town of the former kingdom , have changed...more have returned to my native country. But as this fcheme was not now practicable, and the fubfequent volume was conliderably advanced , I refolved .to...
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 39

English literature - 1777 - 750 pages
...the war been at that time breaking out between Franceand England, I had certainly retired tft fome provincial town of the former kingdom, have changed...more have returned to my native country. But as this fcheme was not now practicable, and the fubfcquent volume was confkk'rably advanced, I refolved to...
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Solitude. Or the Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the ..., Volume 2

Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1799 - 390 pages
...war at that time " been breaking out between France and £ng" land, I had certainly retired to fome provincial *' town of the former kingdom, have changed...have returned to " my native country. But as this fcheme was " not now practicable, and the fubfequent vo» " lume was confiderably advanced, I refcdved...
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