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More from Edward Gibbon

  1. The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive …

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  2. It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.

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  3. All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.

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