--DISSERTATION ON THE
SIXTH AENEID.--FATHER'S DEATH.--SETTLEMENT IN LONDON
CHAPTER VI.
LIFE IN LONDON.--PARLIAMENT.--THE BOARD OF TRADE.--THE DECLINE AND
FALL.--MIGRATION TO LAUSANNE
CHAPTER VII.
THE FIRST THREE VOLUMES OF THE DECLINE AND FALL
CHAPTER VIII.
THE LAST TEN TEARS OF HIS LIFE AT LAUSANNE
CHAPTER IX.
THE LAST THREE VOLUMES OF THE DECLINE AND FALL
CHAPTER X.
LAST ILLNESS.--DEATH.--CONCLUSION
GIBBON
CHAPTER I.
GIBBON'S EARLY LIFE UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING OXFORD.
Edward Gibbon[1] was born at Putney, near London, on 27th April in
the year 1737. After the reformation of the calendar his birthday
became the 8th of May. He was the eldest of a family of seven
children; but his five brothers and only sister all died in early
infancy, and he could remember in after life his sister alone, whom he
also regretted.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1: Gibbon's Memoirs and Letters are of such easy access that
I have not deemed it necessary to encumber these pages with references
to them. Any one who wishes to control my statements will have no
difficulty in doing so with the Miscellaneous Works, edited by Lord
Sheffield, in his hand.
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