Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, 1. köideP. Wogan, 1796 - 726 pages |
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... these Vo- lumes . The most important part confifts of Me- moirs of Mr. Gibbon's Life and Writings , a work which he feems to have projected with peculiar folicitude and attention , and of which he left Six different fketches , all in ...
... these Vo- lumes . The most important part confifts of Me- moirs of Mr. Gibbon's Life and Writings , a work which he feems to have projected with peculiar folicitude and attention , and of which he left Six different fketches , all in ...
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With Memoirs of His Life and Writings Edward Gibbon. My hesitation in giving these Memoirs to the world arose , principally , from the circum- stance of Mr. Gibbon's appearing , in some res- pect , not to have been fatisfied with them ...
With Memoirs of His Life and Writings Edward Gibbon. My hesitation in giving these Memoirs to the world arose , principally , from the circum- stance of Mr. Gibbon's appearing , in some res- pect , not to have been fatisfied with them ...
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... these volumes . Three more of his fmaller Publications are alfo reprinted . 1. His mafterly Criticism on the Sixth Book of Virgil , in answer to Bishop Warburton . 2. His own Vindication of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of his ...
... these volumes . Three more of his fmaller Publications are alfo reprinted . 1. His mafterly Criticism on the Sixth Book of Virgil , in answer to Bishop Warburton . 2. His own Vindication of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of his ...
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... these various writings the Author has fpoken himself , in defcribing his own Life . I have yet to notice fome articles not menti- oned in his Memoirs , and which will be found in this Publication . 1. A juvenile sketch , entitled ...
... these various writings the Author has fpoken himself , in defcribing his own Life . I have yet to notice fome articles not menti- oned in his Memoirs , and which will be found in this Publication . 1. A juvenile sketch , entitled ...
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... these Volumes has the mournful attraction of being a sketch inter- rupted by death , and affords an honourable proof that Friend's ardour for the promo- tion of historical knowledge attended him to the laft . It is entitled merely " An ...
... these Volumes has the mournful attraction of being a sketch inter- rupted by death , and affords an honourable proof that Friend's ardour for the promo- tion of historical knowledge attended him to the laft . It is entitled merely " An ...
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