 | 1807 - 772 páginas
...be learned in Kngli-h of th? Arabs and Persians, thcTartarsand Turks; and the same ardour urged roe to guess at the French of D'Herbelot, and to' construe the barbarous Latin of Focock's Abulfaragious. Such vague and multifarious rending could not teach me to think, towri:c, or... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 páginas
...returned to Bath I procured the second and third volumes of Howel's History of the World, which exhibit the Byzantine period on a larger scale. Mahomet and...the same ardour urged me to guess at the French of D'Herbelot,and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius. Such vague and multifarious... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 páginas
...returned to Bath I procured the second and third volumes of Howel's History of the World, which exhibit the Byzantine period on a larger scale. Mahomet and...and the same ardour urged me to guess at the French ofD'Herbelot,and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius. Such vague and multifarious... | |
 | 1839 - 764 páginas
...; and before he was sixteen, such use had he made of intervals between attacks of sickness, that he had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks; whilst 'the same ardour ' had urged him to guess at the French of D'Herbelot, and to ' construe the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 páginas
...; and before he was sixteen, such use had he made of intervals between attacks of sickness, that he had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks ; whilst ' the same ardour ' had urged him to guess at the French of D'Herbelot, and to ' construe... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 páginas
...Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another, till I had ranged round the circle of oriental history. Before I was sixteen, 1 had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 páginas
...Saracens soon fixed my attention ; and some instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Before I was sixteen, I had exhausted all that could...construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's ' Abulfaragius.' " And thus, at the most susceptible period of existence, there rushed into these enthusiastic spirits... | |
 | 1854 - 428 páginas
...Saracens soon fixed my attention; and some instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Before I was sixteen, I had exhausted all that could...the barbarous Latin of Pocock's ' Abulfaragius.'" And thus, at the most susceptible period of existence, there rushed into these enthusiastic spirits... | |
 | 1855 - 364 páginas
...endeavoured to obtain information on the same subject from other sources. " Before I was sixteen," he says, " I had exhausted all that could be learned in English...D'Herbelot, and to construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Albufaragins. Such vague and multifarious reading could not teach me to think, to write, or to act... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 páginas
...Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another till I had ranged round the circle of Oriental history. Before...construe the barbarous Latin of Pocock's Abulfaragius." To this day the schoolboy-student of the Decline and Fall feels the traces of that schoolboy reading.... | |
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... of the World, which exhibit the Byzantine period on a larger scale. Mahomet and his Saracens soon fixed my attention; and some instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes,... 
