 YOUR request that I would send you an account of my uncle's death, in order to transmit a more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgments ; for, if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well assured,...  Pompeii - 40 psl.autoriai: William Clarke (architect.) - 1836Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1869 - 296 psl.
...follow, to some extent, the version of the latter. 28 PLINY'S DESCRIPTION. the Historia Naturalis\, in order to transmit a more exact relation of it to posterity, merits my acknowledgments; for should the calamity be celebrated by your pen, its memory, I feel assured,... | |
 | Marlborough coll, nat. hist. soc - 1880 - 152 psl.
...eye-witness of the scenes he describes, is so great that I think I am justified in introducing them " Your request that I would send you an account of my...more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgements; for, if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 460 psl.
...Consul, and afterwards Governor of Bithynia and Pontica. He died 113 AD THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII YOUR request that I would send you an account of my...the glory of it, I am well assured, will be rendered forever illustrious. And notwithstanding he perished by a misfortune, which, as it involved at the... | |
 | 1901 - 650 psl.
...by their gentle application. Farewell. To TACITUS: THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS. (From the "Letters.") YOUR request that I would send you an account of my...the glory of it, I am well assured, will be rendered forever illustrious. And notwithstanding he perished by a misfortune which, as it involved at the same... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 psl.
...and life ! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home ! SHELL 8. DEATH OF PLINY THE ELDER. (AD 79.) Your request that I would send you an account of my...well assured, will be rendered for ever illustrious. It is with extreme willingness, therefore, I execute your commands. He was at that time with the fleet... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1905 - 440 psl.
...country promise results as interesting as those already obtained within the city limits. PLINY OUR request that I would send you an account of my uncle's...the glory of it, I am well assured, will be rendered forever illustrious. And notwithstanding he perished by a misfortune, which as it involved at the same... | |
 | 1906 - 594 psl.
...archeologist to uncover after two thousand years of burial beneath the Vesuvian scoriae. Letter No. 1. YOUR request that I would send you an account of my...the glory of it, I am well assured, will be rendered forever illustrious. And notwithstanding he perished by a misfortune which, as it involved at the same... | |
 | Sydney Tyler - 1906 - 438 psl.
...eyewitness, in two letters which he wrote to Tacitus. "Your request/' he wrote in the first epistle, "that I would send you an account of my uncle's death,...transmit a more exact relation of it to posterity, de-- serves my acknowledgments, for if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen the glory of it,... | |
 | William Denison McCrackan - 1907 - 504 psl.
...Cornelius Tacitus, at the latter's special request. In Book vi., 16, of the " Letters " we read : " Your request that I would send you an account of my...more exact relation of it to posterity, deserves my acknowledgment; for, if this accident shall be celebrated by your pen, the glory of it, I am well assured,... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1908 - 524 psl.
...ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS (AD 79) PLINY YOUR request* that I would send you an account of my uncle,s death, in order to transmit a more exact relation of it to posterity, merits my acknowledgments; for, if the glorious circumstances which occasioned this accident shall... | |
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