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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 2 : (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bankruptcy laws, past and present. (search)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cold Harbor , battle of (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Everett , Edward , 1794 -1865 (search)
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Gibbon, Edward 1737-
Historian; born in Putney, Surrey, England, April 27, 1737; was from infancy feeble in physical constitution.
His first serious attempt at authorship was when he was only a youth—a treatise on the age of Sesostris.
He was lity the following epigram alludes.
It was written it is said, by Charles James Fox:
King George, in a fright, lest Gibbon should write The story of Britain's disgrace, Thought no means more sure his pen to secure Than to give the historian a p projects should never succeed; Though he write not a line, yet a cause of Decline In the author's example we read.
Edward Gibbon.
On the downfall of the North administration, and the loss of his salary, Gibbon left England and went to live at Gibbon left England and went to live at Lausanne, Switzerland.
There he completed his great work in June, 1787, and, sending the manuscript to England, it was issued on his fifty-first birthday.
It is said that his booksellers realized a profit on the work of $300,000, while the author
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 8 : transcendentalism (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
To the same. Norridgewock, November 21, 1819.
I have long indulged the hope of reading Virgil in his own tongue.
I have not yet relinquished it. I look forward to a certain time when I expect that hope, with many others, will be realized. .. I usually spend an hour, after I retire for the night, in reading Gibbon's Roman Empire.
The pomp of his style at first displeased me ; but I think him an admirable historian.
There is a degree of dignified elegance about this work which I think well suited to the subject.