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Three and a half months in Paris, and a revisit to Lausanne preceded the year that he passed in Italy. Of the conception of the History of the Decline and Fall, during his stay in Rome, I have already spoken.
On his return to England, contemplating "the decline and fall of Rome at an awful distance," he began, in col- laboration with the Swiss Deyverdun, his bosom friend, a history of Switzerland written in French. During the winter of 1767, the first book of it was submitted to a literary soci...ety of foreigners in London. As the author was unknown the strictures were free and the verdict unfavorable. Gibbon was present at the meeting and related that "the momentary sensation was painful," but, on cooler reflection, he agreed with his judges and intended to consign his manuscript to the flames. But this, as Lord Sheffield, his literary executor and first editor, shows con- • Autobiography, ffiU's ed., 142, ' Ibid., 258.
276 MODEEN ESSAYS clusively, he neglected to do.' This essay of Gibbon's possesses interest for us, inasmuch as David Hume read it, and wrote to Gibbon a friendly letter, in which he said : " I have perused your manuscript with great pleasure and satisfaction.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Three and a half months in Paris, and a revisit to Lausanne preceded the year that he passed in Italy. Of the conception of the History of the Decline and Fall, during his stay in Rome, I have already spoken.
On his return to England, contemplating "the decline and fall of Rome at an awful distance," he began, in col- laboration with the Swiss Deyverdun, his bosom friend, a history of Switzerland written in French. During the winter of 1767, the first book of it was submitted to a literary soci...ety of foreigners in London. As the author was unknown the strictures were free and the verdict unfavorable. Gibbon was present at the meeting and related that "the momentary sensation was painful," but, on cooler reflection, he agreed with his judges and intended to consign his manuscript to the flames. But this, as Lord Sheffield, his literary executor and first editor, shows con- • Autobiography, ffiU's ed., 142, ' Ibid., 258.
276 MODEEN ESSAYS clusively, he neglected to do.' This essay of Gibbon's possesses interest for us, inasmuch as David Hume read it, and wrote to Gibbon a friendly letter, in which he said : " I have perused your manuscript with great pleasure and satisfaction.
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