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Extracts From The Memoirs Of The Life And Writings Of Edward Gibbon, Esq.
EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF EDWARD GIBBON , ESQ .
COMPOSED BY HIMSELF . JUST PUBLISHED BY JOHN LORD SHEFFIELD .
( CONTINUED FKOM r . 327 . ) Tf ' N our last number , we concluded the Memoirs of the Life and A Writings of Mr . Gibbon , as far as he had himself prepared them for publication . The remainder of the first volume is occupied by his epistolary correspondence with many of the first characters of the age Dr . Robertson , David Hume , Dr . Watson , Dr . George learned & of this
Campbell , Dr . Adam Smith , the Gesner c . Some correspondence is truly valuable ; for , even in his Letters , Mr . Gib . bon has all the elegance and depth of history . In October 17 88 , he had an interview with Mr . Fox at Lausanne ; which he thus describes in a Letter to Lord Sheffield . The Man of the le escaped from the tumultthe bloody
" Peop , tumult of the Westminster election , to the lakes and mountains of Switzerland , and I was inforrned that he was arrived at the Lyon d'Or . I sent a compliment ; he answered it in person , and settled at my house for the remainder of the day . I have eat and drank , and conversed , and sat up all nig ht with Fox in England ; but it never has happenedperhaps it never can happen again , that I should enjoy
, him as I did that day , alone , from ten in the morning till ten at night Poor Deyverdun , before his accident , wanted spirits to appear , and has regretted it since . Our conversation never flagged a moment ; and he seemed thoroughly pleased with the place and with his company We had little politics ; though he gave me , in a few words , such a character of Pitt , as one great man should g ive of another his which he flattered
rival much of books , from my own , on me very pleasantly , to Homer and the Arabian Nig hts : much about the country , my garden , ( which he understands far better than I do ) and ,, upon the whole I think he envies me , and would do so , were he minister . The next morning I gave him a guide to walk about the town and country , and invited some company to meet him at dinner . and Zurichand
The following day he continued his journey to Bern , I have heard of him by various means . The people gaze on him as a prodigy , but he shews little inclination to converse with them , & c . In his retirement on the banks of the Leman lake , pur author was a very attentive observer of the various events of the French Revolution . - In December 1789 , he thus expresses himself on that subject . " What would you have me say of the affairs of France ? We are too near , and too remote , to form an accurate judgment of that won-
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Extracts From The Memoirs Of The Life And Writings Of Edward Gibbon, Esq.
EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF EDWARD GIBBON , ESQ .
COMPOSED BY HIMSELF . JUST PUBLISHED BY JOHN LORD SHEFFIELD .
( CONTINUED FKOM r . 327 . ) Tf ' N our last number , we concluded the Memoirs of the Life and A Writings of Mr . Gibbon , as far as he had himself prepared them for publication . The remainder of the first volume is occupied by his epistolary correspondence with many of the first characters of the age Dr . Robertson , David Hume , Dr . Watson , Dr . George learned & of this
Campbell , Dr . Adam Smith , the Gesner c . Some correspondence is truly valuable ; for , even in his Letters , Mr . Gib . bon has all the elegance and depth of history . In October 17 88 , he had an interview with Mr . Fox at Lausanne ; which he thus describes in a Letter to Lord Sheffield . The Man of the le escaped from the tumultthe bloody
" Peop , tumult of the Westminster election , to the lakes and mountains of Switzerland , and I was inforrned that he was arrived at the Lyon d'Or . I sent a compliment ; he answered it in person , and settled at my house for the remainder of the day . I have eat and drank , and conversed , and sat up all nig ht with Fox in England ; but it never has happenedperhaps it never can happen again , that I should enjoy
, him as I did that day , alone , from ten in the morning till ten at night Poor Deyverdun , before his accident , wanted spirits to appear , and has regretted it since . Our conversation never flagged a moment ; and he seemed thoroughly pleased with the place and with his company We had little politics ; though he gave me , in a few words , such a character of Pitt , as one great man should g ive of another his which he flattered
rival much of books , from my own , on me very pleasantly , to Homer and the Arabian Nig hts : much about the country , my garden , ( which he understands far better than I do ) and ,, upon the whole I think he envies me , and would do so , were he minister . The next morning I gave him a guide to walk about the town and country , and invited some company to meet him at dinner . and Zurichand
The following day he continued his journey to Bern , I have heard of him by various means . The people gaze on him as a prodigy , but he shews little inclination to converse with them , & c . In his retirement on the banks of the Leman lake , pur author was a very attentive observer of the various events of the French Revolution . - In December 1789 , he thus expresses himself on that subject . " What would you have me say of the affairs of France ? We are too near , and too remote , to form an accurate judgment of that won-