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Edward Gibbon   /ˈɛdwərd gˈɪbən/   Listen
Edward Gibbon

noun
1.
English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794).  Synonym: Gibbon.





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... supplied her own historians, not needing to go abroad for either history or historian. George Bancroft, with a private library larger by almost half than the ten thousand-volume library Edward Gibbon used in writing "The Decline and Fall of the Roman empire;" George Bancroft, whose literary life was dedicated to one task, and that the writing the life of his country prior to the Constitution; George Bancroft, publicist as well as student of history, and who in such relation represented ...
— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle
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