Gibbon Quotes
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Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr Gibbon?
— 1781 Attributed, when presented with the second volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. These words have also been attributed to George III and the Duke of Cumberland.
Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.
joseph priestley— General Conclusions, Part I
Edward Gibbon: "In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Husein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader."
— The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 2, p. 218
