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English Men of Letters: Gibbon
by J. Cotter Morison
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English Men of Letters: Gibbon Summary:
| Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), best known for The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is considered the seminal historian of the Enlightenment. Born to a wealthy family in South London, Gibbon wrote his first works in French. He was expelled from college in Oxford for becoming Roman Catholic, but after boarding with a demanding Calvinist pastor in Switzerland, turned back to Anglicanism. From there he joined the militia and then went on to have a successful writing career. |
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