 | William Robertson - America - 1780 - 570 pages
...details, with fuch amufing vanity, and yet fo pardonable in an old foldier who had been (as he boafts) in a hundred and nineteen battles, as renders his book one of the moft fmgular that is to be found in any language. PET. Martyr ab Angleria, in a treatife de Infulis... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 860 pages
...details, with fuch amufing vanity, and yet fo pardonable in an old foldier who had been (as he boaih) in a hundred and nineteen battles, as renders his...moil ungular that is to be found in any language." In the verfi'on before us, however, it is rendered lefs tedious and confufed than in -the orighial,... | |
 | English literature - 1801 - 734 pages
...pleafant naivete, with fuch intereiting details, wi'h fuch amufing vanity, and yet fo pardonable in an old foldier who had been (as he boalb) in a hundred and nineteen battles, as renders his book one of the molt fingular that is to be found in any language." Rdbertjon's America^ vol, ii. f. 418. Such is the... | |
 | William Robertson - America - 1809 - 392 pages
...details, with such amusing vanity, and yet so pardonable in an old soldier who had been (as he boasts) in a hundred and nineteen battles, as renders his book one of the most singular that is to be found in any language. Pet. Martyr ab Angleri», in a treatise de Insulis... | |
 | William Robertson - 1811 - 502 pages
...details, with such amusing vanity, and yet so pardonable in an old soldier who had been (as he boasts) in a hundred and nineteen battles, as renders his book one of the most singular that is to be found in any language. Pet. Martyr ab Angleria, in a treatise de Insulis... | |
 | William Robertson - America - 1813 - 620 pages
...details, with such amusing vanity, and yet so pa'rdonable in an old soldier, who had been (as he boasts) in a hundred and nineteen battles, as renders his book one of the most singular that is to be found in any language. Pet. Martyr ab Angleria, in a treatise de Insulis... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - History - 1821 - 480 pages
...details, with Buch amusing vanity, and yet so pardonable in an old soldier who had been (as he boasts) in a hundred and nineteen battles, as renders his book one of the most singular that is to be found in any language. Pet. Martyr ab Angleria, in a treatise De Insulis... | |
 | William Robertson - 1824 - 408 pages
...with such amusing vanity, and yet so pardonable in an old soldier, who • had been (as he boasts) in a hundred and nineteen battles, as renders his book one of the most singular that is to be found in any language. Pet. Martyr ab Angleria, in a treatise De Insulis... | |
 | William Robertson - America - 1825 - 484 pages
...details, with such amusing vanity, and yet so pardonable in an old soldier who had been, as he boasts, in a hundred and nineteen battles, as renders his book one of the most singular that is to be found in any language. Pet. Martyr ab Angleria, in a treatise De Insulis... | |
 | Bernal Díaz del Castillo - Mexico - 1844 - 428 pages
...details, with such amusing vanity, and yet so pardonable in an old soldier, who had been, as he boasts, in a hundred and nineteen battles, as renders his book one of the most singular that is to be found in any language." One circumstance, and that very justly, he is most... | |
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... bears all the marks of authenticity, and is accompanied with such a pleasant naivete, with such interesting details, with such amusing vanity, and yet so pardonable in an old soldier, who • had been (as he boasts) in a hundred and nineteen battles,... 
