Private Letters of Edward Gibbon 1753 to 1794
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: December 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781417970018
Subjects: Biography: general; Biography: historical; Historical - British; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Historical - General
First sentence: ON June 8, 1753, Edward Gibbon, then sixteen years of age, and an undergraduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, was received into the Roman Catholic Church by a Jesuit named Baker, one of the chaplains to the Sardinian Embassy.