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His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.

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But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times...

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

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Born: April 27, 1737

Died: January 16, 1794 (aged 56)

Bio: Edward Gibbon was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.

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Memoirs of My Life and Writings
The autobiographies of Edward Gibbon
The Christians and the Fall of Rome

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