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Memoirs of My Life and Writings (1796) is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years. Lord Sheffield's editing has been praised for its ingenuity and taste, but blamed for its unscholarly aggressiveness.
Shortly following Gibbon's death, his good friend and literary executor, John Lord Sheffield undertook to edit and in 1796 published the first (of three) edition(s) of the Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon (MW) [1] in order that the reading public have an opportunity to gain a broader insight into the historian and his overall body of work.
Edward Gibbon FRS (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ b ən /; 8 May 1737 [1] – 16 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organized religion.
Brownley, Martine W. "Gibbon's Artistic and Historical Scope in the Decline and Fall," Journal of the History of Ideas 42:4 (1981), 629–642. Cosgrove, Peter. Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Newark: Associated University Presses, 1999) ISBN 0-87413-658-X. Craddock, Patricia.
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Sixth edition, 1789 Dec 1. Volumes II, III were published together in three editions between 1781 and 1789: First editions, 1781 Mar 1 (a and b; b sometimes called the second edition); Second edition, 1787 (n/a); Third edition, 1789 Dec 1. published with the sixth edition of volume one as a new set.
Gibbon states that Davis was rewarded for the attack by a "royal pension". [1] Gibbon also said in his Memoirs of My Life and Writings that "victory over such antagonists was a sufficient humiliation". [3] Davis took priest's orders in 1780, and became fellow and tutor of Balliol.
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