More from Edward Gibbon

  1. It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.
  2. I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
  3. Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.
  4. Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
  5. The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human ma…
  6. The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
  7. All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
  8. It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vesp…

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