The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon With Various Observations And Excursions
The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon With Various Observations And Excursions
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
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21 she wrote : "M. Gibbon a ici le plus grand succ^, on se Tarrache, il se conduit tr^s bien, et sans avoir, je crois, autant d' esprit que feu M. Hume, il ne tombe pas dans les mSmes ridicules. ... II se comporte avec tout le monde d'une mani^re qui ne donne point de prise aux ridicules ; ce qui est fort difficile k ^viter dans les sooi6t^ qu'il fr^uente." On Oct. 26 she added : " II fait trop de cas de nos agr^ens, trop de d^sir de les acqu^rir ; j'ai toujours eu sur le bout de la langue de l...ui dire : ne vous tourmentez pas, vous m^ritez Thonneur d*6tre Franpais ' * (Lettres de La Marquise du Deffand d Monsieur Walpole, London, 1810, iii., 265, 287, 295, 301). APPENDIX 317 38. L'ABBE DE MABLT (p. 199). (I.) Of the yoluminous writings of the Abb^ de Mably (see his Eloge by the Abb^ Brizord), the Principes du droit public de I* Europe, and the first part of the Obseruatums sur tHistoire de France, may be deservedly praised ; and even the Maniire cCicrire VHistoire contains several useful precepts and judicious remarks.
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