41. Gibbon - Historian - Part I the following essay the first of a twopart instalment was written to commemorate the bicentennial of the death of Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), author of A http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~zimm/gibho1.html

Edward Gibbon, Historian of the Roman Empire Part I: The Man and His Book by Eugene Y. C. Ho, Hong Kong Tragic News: Mr. Ho died in July 1997, at the age of 37, after an accident in his home. See his home page at the Karl Popper web site. The following is in Eugene's own words: Author's Note: Originally published in Issue 30 (Apr - Jun 1994) of the Hong Kong intellectual journal Intellectus, the following essay the first of a two-part instalment was written to commemorate the bicentennial of the death of Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), author of A History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Click here for the second instalment . Readers who wish to read some specimens of Gibbon's masterpiece may visit either Dr. Zimmermann's web page ( The "Best of" Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ) or mine ( Passages from Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire "Good historians," wrote Horace Walpole, "are the most scarce of all writers, and no wonder! A good style is not very common; thorough information is still rare; and if these meet, what a chance that impartiality should be added to them!" The English historian Edward Gibbon, who died 200 years ago, did not quite meet the last test, but neither did his Roman predecessor Tacitus, who alone can stand with him among the world's supreme historians. The Man Gibbon was born at Putney, Surrey, on 27th April, 1737, according to the Julian calendar, which England was still using then. When the Gregorian calendar was finally adopted in 1752, he celebrated his birthday on 8th May. Born into a family of rather good fortune, he was the oldest son of Edward Gibbon Sr. and Judith Porten, who died in 1747 of her seventh pregnancy. Apart from losing his mother at a tender age, Gibbon also witnessed the successive deaths of his siblings, for it was then common for children not to survive their infancy.

42. Edward Gibbon - Champion Of Freedom Edward Gibbon. (17371794) The greatest English historian of his time and author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire http://ilovefreedom.com/quotations/Edward_Gibbon.htm

TM Celebrating the God-given right of personal freedom throughout the world. Contents Home Testimonies USA worldwide ... Contact us Last updated Mark G. Dixon 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 all—security, 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]

43. The Edward Gibbon Page Edward Gibbon (17371794) 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 http://members.aol.com/Feuillade/TomMoran28.index.html

Tom Moran's Edward Gibbon Page Who Is Edward Gibbon? 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. At a million and a half words, Gibbon's masterpiece is not only one of the greatest works of history ever written, but one of the longest. As with Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu," its very length is daunting to many readers. 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. Why Should I Spend God Knows How Many Hours of My Life Reading a Million and a Half Words About the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?

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47. Edward Gibbon; Author Of The History Of The Decline And Fall Of Edward Gibbon, 17371794. Edward Gibbon was the eldest of seven children born to Edward Gibbon and Julia Porten, and their only child to survive infancy. http://www.users.bigpond.com/smartboard/gibbon.htm

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

48. Memoirs Of My Own Life - Edward Gibbon British historian Edward Gibbon (17371794) is best known as the author of the monumental History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/gibbone/memoirs.htm

A Literary Saloon Site of Review. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Contents: Main the Best the ... Links to e-mail us: the complete review - autobiography Memoirs of my own Life by Edward Gibbon general information our review links about the author Title: Memoirs of my own Life Author: Edward Gibbon Genre: Autobiography Written: Length: 237 pages Availability: Memoirs of my Life A number of editions of the work exist. The version at Amazon.com is the Penguin edition, edited by Betty Radice. There are six drafts of the original work, most covering different periods of Gibbon's life. These have been collected in various editions, notably Lord Sheffield's. The Radice edition (and other modern versions) restore the often significant cuts made by Lord Sheffield. - Return to top of the page - Our Assessment: B+ : short but fascinating memoir, a good read See our review for fuller assessment. The complete review 's Review Edward Gibbon is best known for his enormous book on the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . For a man who wrote so much on this one subject he showed admirable restraint in his memoirs, a volume that almost disappears beside the large tomes that make up the

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50. GIBBON is good, but people are beginning to suspect that we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty. Edward Gibbon. (17371794). http://www.geocities.com/snoopythewriter/GIBBON.html

I never made the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. I was never less alone than while by myself. In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free. Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect that we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty. EDWARD GIBBON

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52. Citing Sources: According To Chicago Style Gibbon, Edward 17371794. In Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM CD-ROM Oxford; New York Oxford University Press, 1995. Gibbon, Edward 1737-1794. http://www.lib.uwo.ca/weldon/guides/styleguides/chicagostyle.html

The D.B. Weldon Library - The University of Western Ontario Citing Sources: According to Chicago Style Use this guide to organize your Bibliography and the Notes at the end of your essay, or your Reference List and Parenthetical Notes if you use the author/date method of citing sources. The guide is based on The Chicago Manual of Style [DBW reference Z 253.C572 1993 (non-circulating)]; please consult the manual to cite materials not included below (e.g.: videos, lectures, speeches, emails, etc.). See also Electronic Styles: A Handbook for Citing Electronic Information [DBW reference PN 171.F56L5 1996] for further information. Print Sources Book Bibliography: Jezer, Marty. Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Note: Marty Jezer, Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992), 168. Reference List: Jezer, Marty. 1992. Abbie Hoffman: American rebel. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. Parenthetical Note: (Jezer 1992, 168)

53. The D.B.Weldon Library Gibbon, Edward 17371794. In Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM CD-ROM Oxford; New York Oxford University Press, 1995. cited 14 June 2000. http://www.lib.uwo.ca/weldon/guides/styleguides/electronicstyle.html

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EDWARD GIBBON GIBBON, EDWARD In his ninth year (1746), during a lucid interval of comparative health, he was sent to a school at Kingston-uponThames; but his former infirmities soon returned, and his progress, by his own confession, was slow and unsatisfactory. My timid reserve was astonished by the crowd and tumult of the school; the want of strength and activity disqualified me for the sports of the play-field. . . . By the common methods of discipline, at the expense of many tears and some blood, I purchased the knowledge of the Latin syntax, but manifestly, in his own opinion, the Arabian Nights, Popes Homer, and Drydens Virgil, eagerly read, had at this period exercised a much more powerful influence on his intellectual development than Phaedrus and Cornelius Nepos, painfully construed and darkly understood. respects was much in need of such elevation will be doubted by none but the hopelessly cynical; and probably there are few readers who can peruse the paragraph in which Gibbon approaches the delicate subject of his early love without discerning in it a pathos much deeper than that of which the writer was himself aware. During the remainder of his residence at Lausanne he had good reason to indulge his dream of felicity ; but on his return to England, I soon discovered that my father would not hear of this strange alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.

58. Edward Gibbon - English Dictionary Meaning Summary Edward Gibbon - Gibbon. Entries found - 1) n English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794). http://www.realdictionary.com/E/dir/EdwardGibbon.asp

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59. History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire(Edward Gibbon) History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. Edward Gibbon (17371794). DOWNLOAD(4,227KB). Preface Of The Author. Introduction. Volume One. http://gd.cnread.net/cnread1/ewjd/g/gibbon/hor/

History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire 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.

60. Gibbon Bibliography (Craddock) Selected Bibliography Edward Gibbon (17371794). 283 pp. DM Low, Edward Gibbon 1737-1794 (London Chatto Windus, 1937). 384 pp. http://www.c18.rutgers.edu/biblio/gibbon.html

c18 Europe c18 America Search Interroger ... Contacter Selected Bibliography: Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) By Patricia B. Craddock University of Florida Last revised 19 May 1999 Bibliographies Primary Works H. M. Beatty, "Bibliography of Gibbon's History, Minor and Miscellaneous Works, and Letters; and of the Controversial Replies to the History," in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , ed. J. B. Bury (London: Methuen, 1909-14), 7:348-64. Available only in this edition of Bury's edition and in the AMS reprint (1974) of Bury. J. E. Norton, A Bibliography of the Works of Edward Gibbon (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1940). 266 pp. Lithographically reprinted in 1970. Secondary Works 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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