Usage examples for gibbon
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More clearly to bring out my meaning here and draw aid from comparative illustration, let me take my old friend of many years, Charles Gibbon. – Robert Louis Stevenson a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial by Alexander H. Japp
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Gibbon spent twenty years on his immortal book Lamb toiled most laboriously over his essays. – Methods of Authors by Hugo Erichsen
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The love of reading which Gibbon declared he would not exchange for all the treasures of India was, in fact, with Macaulay " a main element of happiness in one of the happiest lives that it has ever fallen to the lot of the biographer to record." – The Pleasures of Life by Sir John Lubbock