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Extracts From The Memoirs Of The Life And Writings Of Edward Gibbon, Esq.
EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF EDWARD GIBBON , ESQ .
COMPOSED BY HIMSELF . JUST PUBLISHED BY JOHN LORD SHEFFIELD .
THE memoirs of the life and writings of the historian of the Roman Empire , written by himself , and confided to his friend Lord Sheffield , have just made their appearance , in two volumes 4 to ; and in a manner that is -highly creditable to the care and talents of the learned editor . It appears from his Lordship s preface that these memoirs are arranged from different journals and papers of , iven in his exact words
Mr Gibbon ; but that they are always g own . It is to be reo-retted that he did not continue his memoirs farther than to within twenty years of his death . This loss however , has been in part supplied , by the publication of his epistolary correspondence with his most intimate friends , which is added in an Appendix ; and which is , perhaps , the best picture of the real character and
manners of its author : ' . ' " - Omuls « pateat veluti descripta Tabella " Vita Senis : " Htm : From his letters we are enabled to collect a great deal of the life and of whose works have iven new dignity to the
Engopinions a man , g lish language ; and whose speculative tenets may not . appear very objectionable , when the malevolence of some shall have ceased to misrepresent , and the prejudices of others to misconceive them . Every memoir of so great a writer must be entertaining : we shall therefore extract , for our readers , such parts as appear to us particularly interesting ; referring them to the work itself for more copious
information . Mr . Gibbon introduces the memoirs with a short introduction , which we extract in his own words : » In the fifty-second year of my age , after the completion of an arduous and successful work , I now propose to employ some _ moments of my leisure in reviewing the simp le transactions of a private and literary life . Truth , naked , unblushing truth , the first vir . ut of more serious history , must be the sole recommendation of this
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Extracts From The Memoirs Of The Life And Writings Of Edward Gibbon, Esq.
EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF EDWARD GIBBON , ESQ .
COMPOSED BY HIMSELF . JUST PUBLISHED BY JOHN LORD SHEFFIELD .
THE memoirs of the life and writings of the historian of the Roman Empire , written by himself , and confided to his friend Lord Sheffield , have just made their appearance , in two volumes 4 to ; and in a manner that is -highly creditable to the care and talents of the learned editor . It appears from his Lordship s preface that these memoirs are arranged from different journals and papers of , iven in his exact words
Mr Gibbon ; but that they are always g own . It is to be reo-retted that he did not continue his memoirs farther than to within twenty years of his death . This loss however , has been in part supplied , by the publication of his epistolary correspondence with his most intimate friends , which is added in an Appendix ; and which is , perhaps , the best picture of the real character and
manners of its author : ' . ' " - Omuls « pateat veluti descripta Tabella " Vita Senis : " Htm : From his letters we are enabled to collect a great deal of the life and of whose works have iven new dignity to the
Engopinions a man , g lish language ; and whose speculative tenets may not . appear very objectionable , when the malevolence of some shall have ceased to misrepresent , and the prejudices of others to misconceive them . Every memoir of so great a writer must be entertaining : we shall therefore extract , for our readers , such parts as appear to us particularly interesting ; referring them to the work itself for more copious
information . Mr . Gibbon introduces the memoirs with a short introduction , which we extract in his own words : » In the fifty-second year of my age , after the completion of an arduous and successful work , I now propose to employ some _ moments of my leisure in reviewing the simp le transactions of a private and literary life . Truth , naked , unblushing truth , the first vir . ut of more serious history , must be the sole recommendation of this