Gibbon, Edward

Cultural  

1. An eighteenth-century British historian whose masterpiece The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was conceived during a tour of Italy while, as Gibbon put it, he “sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol.” Although largely superseded by later scholarship, his work remains a classic of English historical literature.

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Example Sentences

Gibbon, Edward, 57; his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," 205.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward

Gibbon, Edward, quoted, upon rise of Christianity, 47, 54.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

Gibbon, Edward, esq., his remark on public schools, i.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

Gibbon, Edward, birth, parentage, and education, 122; his love for Mlle.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.