Yours
Cambridx, 1903

Classic English Writers.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CORRESPONDENCE

OF

EDWARD GIBBON.

This volume is a reprint of Vol. I., quarto edition [Lord Sheffield, 1796] of the Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon; it has been carefully edited by

ALEX. MURRAY.

THE

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

AND

CORRESPONDENCE

OF

EDWARD GIBBON,

THE HISTORIAN.

REPRINT OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION.

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1869.

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EXTRACT, p. II, preface to GIBBON'S MISCELLANEOUS WORKS,' 3 VOLS., QUARTO. "In the collection of writings which I am now sending to the press, there is no article that will so much engage the public attention as the MEMOIRS. I have adhered with scrupulous fidelity to the words of their Author; few men have ever so fully unveiled their own character with a genuine confession of his little foibles and peculiarities, and a goodhumoured and natural display of his own conduct and opinions.”

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SHEFFIELD PLACE,

6TH AUGUST, 1795.

SHEFFIELD.

"GIBBON'S MISCELLANEOUS WORKS," VOL. 3, p. 679.

SAMUEL ROSE, Esq. to Lord SHEFFIELD.

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Denham Lodge, Sept. 7, 1796.

I lately heard from my friend Mr. Mackenzie of Edinburgh, who has distinguished himself in the literary world by his Man of Feeling, and other ingenious publications. He speaks in the following just and appropriate terms of your Lordship's last work, which I transcribe with great satisfaction as they express my sentiments upon the subject, and as they come with weight. * "With Mr. Gibbon's volumes, particularly the first [of which this work is a reprint], I was much entertained and gratified. To see so much of the life and manners of a celebrated man, is always gratifying; in this case it was peculiarly so, from the increased esteem it excited for that man, by exhibiting him in so amiable a view as a relation and a friend. * * * Among authors and public men it is not very common, and it is very pleasing, to find such continued and warm affection and attachment; and the man of taste, as well as of virtue, is deeply indebted to the Editor, who can thus unfold to him such sources of moral as well as literary pleasure." * * S. ROSE.

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