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Gibbon was present at the meeting andrelated that "the momentary sensation was painful, " but, on coolerreflection, he agreed with his judges and intended to consign hismanuscript to the flames. But this, as Lord Sheffield, his literaryexecutor and first editor, shows conclusively, he neglected to do. [99]This essay of Gibbon's possesses interest for us, inasmuch as David Humeread it, and wrote to Gibbon a friendly letter, in which he said: "Ihave perused your manuscript with great pleasure and... satisfaction. Ihave only one objection, derived from the language in which it iswritten. Why do you compose in French, and carry faggots into the wood, as Horace says with regard to Romans who wrote in Greek?"[100] Thiscritical query of Hume must have profoundly influenced Gibbon. Next yearhe began to work seriously on "The Decline and Fall" and five yearslater began the composition of it in English. It does not appear that hehad any idea of writing his magnum opus in French.
In this rambling discourse, in which I have purposely avoided relatingthe life of Gibbon in anything like a chronological order, we returnagain and again to the great History.
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Gibbon was present at the meeting andrelated that "the momentary sensation was painful, " but, on coolerreflection, he agreed with his judges and intended to consign hismanuscript to the flames. But this, as Lord Sheffield, his literaryexecutor and first editor, shows conclusively, he neglected to do. [99]This essay of Gibbon's possesses interest for us, inasmuch as David Humeread it, and wrote to Gibbon a friendly letter, in which he said: "Ihave perused your manuscript with great pleasure and... satisfaction. Ihave only one objection, derived from the language in which it iswritten. Why do you compose in French, and carry faggots into the wood, as Horace says with regard to Romans who wrote in Greek?"[100] Thiscritical query of Hume must have profoundly influenced Gibbon. Next yearhe began to work seriously on "The Decline and Fall" and five yearslater began the composition of it in English. It does not appear that hehad any idea of writing his magnum opus in French.
In this rambling discourse, in which I have purposely avoided relatingthe life of Gibbon in anything like a chronological order, we returnagain and again to the great History.
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