Assertion: gibbon | /r/CapableOf | tempt to throw the labours of seven years
Facets:
value: after several rewrites
type: TEMPORAL
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: After several rewrites, with Gibbon "often tempted to throw away the labours of seven years," the first volume of what was to become his life's major achievement, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published on 17 February 1776.