Category: Biographies
Although I am provoked (it is always right to begin first) with your long and unaccountable silence, yet I cannot help wishing (a foolish weakness) to learn whether you and the two infants are still alive, and what have been the summer amusements of your widowed and their orph...
I am ignorant of your picture: mine shall depart by the first proper occasion: but should not some precautions be taken with regard to duties? the importation of foreign picture...
1. Letter 487, on page 85 of this volume.Although I am provoked (it is always right to begin first) with your long and unaccountable silence, yet I cannot help wishing (a foolish weakness) to learn whether you and the...
3. part I now feel as if a mountain was removed from my breast; asfar as I can judge, the public unanimously applauds my compliment to Lord North,[120] and does not appear dissatisfied with the conclusion of my work. I look back with amazement...
10. ii. 21, 119, 143, 152, 170, 230Deffand, Madame du, on Madame Geoffrin, i. _29_; on Voltaire's _La Princesse de Babylone_, i. _91_; her reference to the Neckers, i. _281_; her life in Paris described by Gibbon...
2. letter I shall be on my way to England, and that I hope to reachLondon on or before the 9th of next month. I need not say that by the first post you shall be apprized of my arrival. I bring over the remainder of my history, and only regret t...
21. i. 296Sheffield, Lady (Miss Abigail Way), i. _85_, _139_; Gibbon's letters to, i. 241, 262, 301, 363, 386, 392; ii. 5, 11, 26, 65, 77, 115, 166, 168, 169, 335; her death, ii. 377
22. ii. 128;Staël-Holstein, Madame de, i. _41_, 115, 291, _292_; escapes from Paris, ii. 311; birth of her sons, ii. 319, 347; rescues Princesse d'Hénin, ii. _324_; Miss Burney on, at Dorki...
15. ii. 292Louis XVI., i. _218_, _334_; ii. _204_, _226_, _252_; his escape and recapture, ii. 254 _et seq._, 285, 286, _311_, 324; declares war against Francis Joseph, ii. _279_; defended...
17. i. 7, 263North, Lord, Prime Minister, i. 112; his opponent Barré, i. _145_; his support of Church, i. 148; Royal Marriage Bill, i. 151; his somnolence, i. 173; proposed reconstitution of...
9. i. 28319. i. 30, 32, 35;his influence in Sussex, i. 225; at Madame du Deffand's, i. _312_; his popularity in Paris, i. 316; his slight skirmishes with Gibbon, i. 317; in Sussex Militia, i. _336_, 342;...
18. ii. 271Pitt, William, i. _45_, _50_; and the Stamp Act, i. 84, _85_; Chancellor of Exchequer, ii. 19; Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 28, 127; resigns office, ii. 34; Prime Minister, ii. _86_...
24. ii. 104, 113Wilkes, John, his duel with Martin, i. 50; expelled from House of Commons and outlawed, i. 91; chosen Alderman, i. 93; the Middlesex election, i. _146_, _251_; his illness, i. 2...
12. i. 201Howe, Admiral Lord, i. _283_, 291, _332_; the relief of Gibraltar, ii. 19, 25, 27; First Lord of Admiralty, ii. _86_; dock-yards shut to strangers, ii. 173; his search for the F...
16. ii. 87, 400Necker, Jacques, i. _41_, 81; Directeur Général, i. 304; ii. 115; Mrs. Mallet's resentment, i. 316; "no sign of jealousy," i. 320; his _Administration des Finances_, ii. _115_,...
13. i. 302, 304, 307Johnson, Dr. Samuel, on Lord Bolingbroke, i. _8_; his description of Dr. Maty, i. _18_; on courts and camps, i. _25_; Lady Diana Beauclerk, i. _82_; Dr. Heberden, i. _83_; on Si...
6. i. 65, 149Burgoyne, General John, his motion on the E. I. Co., i. 184; in America, i. 249, 291; his surrender at Saratoga, i. 324, 325; refused admission to Court, i. 338
8. i. 192, 197;14. ii. 375;23. ii. 68;the story of Essex's ring, i. 276; Tessier's acting, i. _278_; Mrs. Damer, i. 287; introduces Gibbon to Madame du Deffand, i. 312; American privateers, i. _317_; Lord North and...
11. ii. 21, 31, 3967. ii. 152, 157, 158, 176, 243, 282;5. i. 20320. ii. 184