Note 655 — RIFLESSIONI D'IGNOTO AUTORE SOPRA I CAPITOLI XXVI, XXVII E XXVIII
Davide Bertolotti translation
Il Sig. Giovanni Kirk in data di Roma dei 12 Giugno 1784 scrisse all'Autore delle Riflessioni in questi termini. Monsig. Stonor is Wholly of your mind, that Gibbon of all other Libertines or Deists is the most dangerous, as he has disguised himself under the cloak of authority...... Hence it is that he approves of your having published a precaution, that heedless readers may not be deceived with his fluid and nervous style, and with the fame, that he has acquired. He was pleased with... and desired me, if you should send any thing else of that nature to give him the satisfaction of the perusal of it. ec. ec.