Memoirs of My Life and Writings
Edward Gibbon · English
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Memoirs of My Life and Writings
Edward Gibbon · English
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MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS By Edward Gibbon 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 simple transactions of a private and literary life. Truth, naked unblushing truth, the first virtue of more serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. The style shall be simple and familiar; but style is the image of characte
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