It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life... Life at Three-score - 第 8 頁Albert Barnes 著 - 1858 - 78 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
| David Hume, Tobias Smollett - 1825 - 480 頁
...Richard — Death and character of Henry — Miscellaneous transactions of his reign . 414 MY OWN LIFE. IT is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity ; therefore I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life ;... | |
| David Hume - 1826 - 508 頁
...brother, I leave the sum of ten pounds, payable the first term after my death. DAVID HUME. MY OWN LIFE. IT is difficult for a man to speak long of himself ' without vanity ; therefore, I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life ;... | |
| David Hume - 1851 - 532 頁
...^ BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE tOUWDBT. THE LIFE OP DAVID HUME ESQ. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. MY OWN LIFE. IT is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity ; therefore I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life ;... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1854 - 374 頁
...author and the character of his works. Let us here remark, that while fin the words of Hume himself) "it is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity," this little memoir seems to have deñed criticism to discover anj thing injudicious or assuming, either... | |
| David Hume - 1856 - 536 頁
...BOSTON: PHILLIPS SAMPSON, AND COMPANY* THE LIFE OF DA VIP HTJME ESQ. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. MY OWN LIFE. IT is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity ; therefore I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life ;... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1859 - 94 頁
...myself, as to what I have found life to be, and how it seems to me now. Mr. Hume, in his well written autobiography, says, " It is difficult for a man to...be short." I am sensible of this danger, and I will endeavor not to expose myself to this charge. If I do, it shall be but once. What then have I found... | |
| David Hume - 1864 - 654 頁
...1912 LOXUOB: rUXTKD IT WILLIAM CLOWIS AND SOUS, 6IA11FOKU STHF.KT, AKD CIIAUIM: CB088. MY OWN LIFE. IT is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life ;... | |
| George Park Fisher - 1866 - 430 頁
...attempt to guard against the imputation of egotism. Hume begins his Autobiography by remarking that " it is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity." In truth, it is inevitable that the semblance of egotism should belong to whatever a man writes about... | |
| George Park Fisher - 1866 - 444 頁
...attempt to guard against the imputation of egotism. Hume begins his Autobiography by remarking that " it is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity." In truth, it is inevitable that the semblance of egotism should belong to whatever a man writes about... | |
| George Park Fisher - 1866 - 440 頁
...attempt to guard against the imputation of egotism. Hume begins his Autobiography by remarking that " it is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity." In truth, it is inevitable that the semblance of egotism should belong to whatever a man writes about... | |
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