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Historical Essays

Note 1 — [p107] EDWARD GIBBON

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Autobiography, 270.

2 Autobiography, 333.

3 Autobiography, 311.

4 Lectures, 763.

5 Chief Periods European Hist., 75.

6 Introduction, lxvii.

7 Introduction, xxxi.

8 Preface, ix.

9 Introduction, xli.

10 p. 324.

11 Letters, I, 23.

12 Autobiography, 310.

13 Letters, II, 36.

14 Ibid., 127.

15 Autobiography, 196.

16 Autobiography, 310. “I am more and more convinced that we have both the right and power on our side.” Letters, I, 248.

17 Hill’s ed. Gibbon Autobiography, 212, 213, 314.

18 Letters, II, 249.

19 Autobiography, 342.

20 Letters, II, 310.

21 Causeries du Lundi, viii, 469.

22 Letters, II, 98.

23 Trevelyan, II, 232.

24 Lectures on the Hist. of Literature, 185.

25 Autobiography, 196.

26 Bury’s ed., xxxv.

27 Decline and Fall, Smith’s ed., 236.

28 Ibid., I, 349.

29 Decline and Fall, Smith’s ed., II, 35.

30 II, 235.

31 History, I, 1.

32 Annals, I, 11.

33 Bury’s introduction, xxxv.

34 Autobiography, 193.

35 Ibid., 48, 59.

36 Ibid., 67.

37 Autobiography, 86 et seq.; Hill’s ed., 69, 291.

38 Autobiography, 131.

39 Ibid., 137.

40 Ibid., 134.

41 Autobiography, 139–142.

42 V, 108, 130, 231.

43 Autobiography, 141.

44 Autobiography, 133.

45 Hill’s ed., 89, 293.

46 Autobiography, 149.

47 Autobiography, 149.

48 Ibid., 161.

49 Causeries du Lundi, VIII, 445.

50 Autobiography, 167.

51 Causeries du Lundi, VIII, 446.

52 Autobiography, Hill’s ed., 142.

53 Autobiography, 258.

54 Ibid., 277.

55 Ibid.

56 Letters, II, 279.

57 Preface, x.

58 Smith’s ed., I, xi.

59 Causeries du Lundi, VIII, 453.

60 London Times, November 16, 1894.

61 Smith’s ed., I, 215, 371; II, 230.

62 Smith’s ed., I, 165; II, 205.

63 Ibid., I, 216.

64 Ibid., I, 144.

65 Ibid., III, 78.

66 Letters, I, 23.

67 Smith’s ed., V, 230.

68 See Mahan’s From Sail to Steam, 276.

69 Causeries du Lundi, I, 153.

70 Introduction, xlv, l, lxvii.

71 Smith’s ed., III, 14.

72 Ibid., IV, 31.

73 Bury, lii.

74 Smith’s ed., V, 258.

75 Ibid., IV, 132 n.

76 Bury’s ed., xxxv, xxxvi.

77 Smith’s ed., I, xxi.

78 Smith’s ed., I, xvii.

79 History of Civilization, II, 308 n.

80 Morals, I, 419.

81 Letters, II, 237.

82 Autobiography, 316.

83 Cotter Morison, 118.

84 Sainte-Beuve, 458.

85 Cotter Morison, 120.

86 Autobiography, 337 n.

87 American Notes, Chap. VII.

88 p. 155.

89 Letters, I, 331.

90 Autobiography, 325.

91 Letters, II, 143.

92 Letters, II, 130.

93 Ibid., 89.

94 Ibid., 211.

95 Ibid., 217.

96 Ibid., II, 232.

97 Letters, II, 129.

98 Ibid., 189.

99 Ibid., I, 40.

100 Autobiography, pp. 151, 239.

101 Letters, I, 41.

102 Letters, I, 81. In 1790 Madame de Staël, then at Coppet, wrote: “Nous possédons dans ce château M. Gibbon, l’ancien amoreux de ma mère, celui qui voulait l’épouser. Quand je le vois, je me demande si je serais née de son union avec ma mère: je me reponds que non et qu’il suffisait de mon père seul pour que je vinsse au monde.”—Hill’s ed., 107, n. 2.

103 Letters, II, 143.

104 Birkbeck Hill’s ed., 127.

105 p. 235.

106 Smith’s ed., I, vii.

107 Autobiography, 343, 346.

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