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Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)

Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794; Sheffield, Henry North Holroyd, Earl of, 1832-1909 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle, 1851-1937 [Editor]· 3 chapters· 63,693 words

I am in a violent hurry--Clarke is extremely well--I have sent you the Deputation. The old Lady expects to hear from me _soon_. I wish your Geographer was arrived, and that Gilbert had discovered the Tythe owners. *By your submission to the voice of reason, you eased me of a h...

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3. part iii. p. 199, Boston, 1885) says that Mallet passed off as

his own, with very slight changes, a ballad called _William and Margaret_, a copy of which, dated 1711, has been discovered. But the resemblances between the two poems scarcely...

1. Letter 181.

I am in a violent hurry--Clarke is extremely well--I have sent you the Deputation. The old Lady expects to hear from me _soon_. I wish your Geographer was arrived, and that Gilb...

2. Letter 47).

I write two lines to return you my thanks for what you say of my book,[323] of which you are not indeed so good a Judge as you would be of any written by another author. By a mi...