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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.
Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.
william blake— Blake's Exhibition and Catalogue of 1809, A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures: Number V. The Ancient Britons
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
