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Edward Gibbon, 17371794 Edward Gibbon was the eldest of seven children born toEdward Gibbon and Julia Porten, and their only child to survive infancy.
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Extractions: Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794 EDWARD GIBBON was the eldest of seven children born to Edward Gibbon and Julia Porten, and their only child to survive infancy. He attributed his survival to the affectionate care of his aunt, Catherine Porten, "the true mother of my mind as well as my health." It was she who encouraged him in his "invincible love of reading," which he pursued widely in his grand-father's library until his "indiscriminate appetite subsided by degrees in the historic line." Gibbon's early schooling had been irregular and frequently interrupted by illness. Then, suddenly, as he approached his sixteenth year, "his disorders wonderfully vanished." Shortly afterwards his father sent him to Oxford. Here he received neither instruction nor companionship, finding the boys frivolous, the dons indolent, and his fourteen months at the university "the most idle and unprofitable" of his whole life. In the course of his solitary literary rambles during these fourteen months, Gibbon became converted to Catholicism. He wrote to his father of the step, and the elder Gibbon, with the impetuosity that seems to have characterised his dealings with his son, sent the sixteen-year-old youth to Lausanne. Here under the tutelage of the Calvinist minister, M. Pavilliard, young Gibbon repudiated his Catholicism and followed a carefully supervised program of studies with particular emphasis on the French and Latin classics and on the mastery of these languages. At the age of twenty, Gibbon fell in love with Suzanne Curchod, who found his unprepossessing appearance
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Index Biography of Edward Gibbon. Gibbon, Edward (17371794), an Englishhistorian. A native of Surrey. Gibbon was educated at Westminster
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Extractions: Index Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794), an English historian. A native of Surrey. Gibbon was educated at Westminster, Oxford and Lausanne, Switzerland. Gibbon traveled extensively in southern Europe. He entered the English Parliament as a Tory in 1774. In 1764, while he was in Rome, it occurred to Gibbon to write a history of the Roman Empire, a composition to which he devoted 24 years. The first volume of his monumental work, a History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, appeared in 1776, and the last in 1788. It is said that when his task was finally ended, Gibbon did not know what to do with himself. During the years 1783-93 he resided in Lausanne again. Gibbon inherited wealth, but was never married, the romance of his life being an unsuccessful suit for the hand of the Swiss lady. He never took the matter to heart evidently, for he visited her later in Paris. w w w
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Extractions: REHupa Home Page REH Bookshelf - G compiled by Rusty Burke BACK TO REH BOOKSHELF HOMEPAGE Garvin , Viola Gautier ... , Edgar A. Garvin, Viola "The House of Cæsar" Sprague de Camp, in 1966, suggested that the second line was a paraphrase from Ernest Dowson's (q.v.) "Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae" (or "Cynara"), the last stanza of which contains the phrase, "But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire," and this came to be the accepted derivation. However, Garvin's poem seems much likelier, and since it is little known, it is printed in entirety here: THE HOUSE OF CÆSAR Yea we have thought of royal robes and red. Had purple dreams of words we utterèd; Have lived once more the moment in the brain That stirred the multitude to shout again. All done, all fled
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Extractions: Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) The greatest English historian of his time and author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Encarta Eugene Ho As quoted by Robert D. Hales in an address delivered at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado on May 3, 1998: complete text Speaking of the downfall of the Greek civilization: "In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it allsecurity, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free." [home] [top] [quotation index]
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Extractions: Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) was an 18th Century British historian and the author of "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," one of the few historical works of the modern era to stand comparison with the great classical works of Herodotus, Thucydides and Tacitus both as history and as literature. The comparison with Proust is particularly appropriate, since both Gibbon and Proust made the same (arguable) mistake. Roughly midway through the writing of their respective books, they decided to reconceive their scale. This ended up making their books more than twice as long as they would have been if they'd followed their original conceptions. Without a doubt, this has had the effect of cutting their potential readership in at least half. A lot of people who would read a book of half a million words will balk at attempting a book of a million and a half.
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Extractions: Roman Empire (1782) By: Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire is perhaps the greatest work of history in the English Language. This monumental work was written by Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), a British parliamentarian and soldier. He conceived his plan for the book while " musing amid the ruins of the Capitol " on a visit to Rome. For the next 10 years he worked away at his great history, which traces the decadence of the late empire from the time of the Antonines and the rise of Western Christianity. " Gibbon is a kind of bridge that connects the ancient with the modern ages ," noted Thomas Carlyle. " And how gorgeously does it swing across the gloomy and tumultuous chasm of these barbarous centuries ." Indeed, Gibbon, the supreme historian of the Enlightenmentthe illustrious scholar who envisioned history as a branch of literatureseemed almost predestined to write his monumental account of the Roman Empire's terrible self-destruction. " I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion ," wrote the author in the famous epigram that summed up his towering achievement in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
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Extractions: The story of Mme de Montolieu's flirtation and playing at courtship with Gibbon, his role in the writing and production of Caroline de Lichtfield , and their continuing real later friendship are all alluded to by him in Volume 3 of The Letters of Edward Gibbon , ed. J. E. Norton (London: Cassell, 1956, 3 vols): 1) A full portrait of Gibbon's time among these women which probably includes details of emotion and memory connected to Montolieu, October 22, 1784: No. 623, Vol 3, pp 13-14 (he is 47, she is 33), from which I quote: "I have discovered about half a dozen Wives who would please me in different ways and by various merits; one as a Mistress (a Widow vastly like the Eliza ; and if she returns I am to bring them together ..." The Eliza is Lady Eliza Foster who became mistress to Devonshire after becoming governess to his daughter; and of whom Gibbon said she was so seductive a old powerful male sitting on his woolsack in front of all the Parliament who get off to follow her beckoning in public if she did so beckon); 2) We see how the novel figured into their relationship: January 20, 1787, No 642, Vol 3, p 62 (he is 49, she is 35): "Has Mylady read a novel entitled Caroline de Lichtfield , of our home manufacture; I may say of ours, since Deyverdun and myself were the judges and patrons of the Manuscript. The author who is since married a second time (Madame de Crousaz, now Montolieu) is a charming woman. I was in some danger."; 3) He singles out Mme de Montolieu as someone Catherine de Severy should tell he remembers her, May 23, 1788, No 687, Vol 3, p 106 (he is 51; she is 37); 4) the story of his kneeling in play to a woman happened but with Duchess of Devonshire, October 12, 1792, No 813, Vol 3, p 278 (he is 55; she is 41); 5) Evidence of continuing mutually supportive friendship, November 8, 1792, No 816, Vol 3, p 288 (he is 55; she 41): "Your note has been communicated to Madame de Montolieu; but as she is engaged with a dying aunt, I have not yet seen her."
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Extractions: Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) DOWNLOAD Preface Of The Author Introduction Volume One Preface To The First Volume. Chapter I: The Extent Of The Empire In The Age Of The Antonines. ¡¡Part I. ¡¡Part II. ¡¡Part II. ¡¡Part III. Chapter II: The Internal Prosperity In The Age Of The Antonines. ¡¡Part I. ¡¡Part II. ¡¡Part III. ¡¡Part IV. Chapter III: The Constitution In The Age Of The Antonines. ¡¡Part I. ¡¡Part II. Chapter IV: The Cruelty, Follies And Murder Of Commodus. ¡¡Part I. ¡¡Part II. Chapter V: Sale Of The Empire To Didius Julianus. ¡¡Part I. ¡¡Part II. Chapter VI: Death Of Severus, Tyranny Of Caracalla, Usurpation Of Marcinus. ¡¡Part I. ¡¡Part II. ¡¡Part III. ¡¡Part IV. Chapter VII: Tyranny Of Maximin, Rebellion, Civil Wars, Death Of Maximin. ¡¡Part I. ¡¡Part II. ¡¡Part III. Chapter VIII: State Of Persion And Restoration Of The Monarchy. ¡¡Part I. ¡¡Part II. Chapter IX: State Of Germany Until The Barbarians. ¡¡Part I. ¡¡Part II. ¡¡Part III. Chapter X: Emperors Decius, Gallus, Aemilianus, Valerian And Gallienus. ¡¡Part I.
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Selected Bibliography Edward Gibbon (17371794). 283 pp. DM Low, EdwardGibbon 1737-1794 (London Chatto Windus, 1937). 384 pp.
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Extractions: University of Florida Last revised 19 May 1999 Shelby T. McCloy, Gibbon's Antagonism to Christianity (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, and London: Williams and Norgate, 1933). 375 pp. Reprinted in Burt Franklin Research and Source Work Series (New York: Burt Franklin, n.d.). Many of the polemical works listed and discussed here are also included in Gibboniana: The Life and Times of Seven Major British Writers . . . Gibbon , 17 vols. (New York and London: Garland, 1974).
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Extractions: "Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant." English historian and scholar, the supreme historian of the Enlightenment, best known as the author of the monumental THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, often considered as the greatest historical work written in English. "It was at Rome... as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." However, Gibbon's first works were written in French. Edward Gibbon was born at Putney in South London into a prosperous family. His father was a wealthy Tory Member of Parliament who went into seclusion and left him to the care of an aunt. Gibbon was a sickly child and his education at Westminster and at Magdalene College, Oxford, was irregular. He was expelled from Magdalene College for turning to Roman Catholicism and sent, in 1753 by his father, to Lausanne Switzerland. He boarded with a Calvinist pastor and rejoined the Anglican fold. In Lausanne he fell in love with Suzanne Curchod, who eventually married Jacques Necker. Their relationship was ended by his father and Gibbon remained unmarried for the rest of his life. Suzanne became the mother of the sage Madame de Staël.
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Extractions: quotes by author G Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.~Zsa Zsa Gabor Frank L. Gaines Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. ~ Frank L. Gaines John Kenneth Galbraith It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence. Just a month before the crash, Irving Fisher was saying: "There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash". John Kenneth Galbraith The Great Crash 1929 Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but because it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action. John Kenneth Galbraith , The Great Crash 1929 Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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