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Beriton, January 1762. ( In a month’s absence from the Devizes. ) - Edward Gibbon, Autobiography [1795]

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The Autobiography of Edward Gibbon (London: Dent, 1911). Introduction by Oliphant Smeaton.

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Beriton, January 1762.

(In a month’s absence from the Devizes.)

“During this interval of repose I again turned my thoughts to Sir Walter Raleigh, and looked more closely into my materials. I read the two volumes in quarto of the Bacon Papers, published by Dr. Birch; the Fragmenta Regalia of Sir Robert Naunton; Mallet’s Life of Lord Bacon, and the political treatises of that great man in the first volume of his works, with many of his letters in the second; Sir William Monson’s Naval Tracts; and the elaborate Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, which Mr. Oldys has prefixed to the best edition of his History of the World. My subject opens upon me, and in general improves upon a nearer prospect.”