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id: 6031
title: Memoirs of My Life and Writings
author: Gibbon, Edward
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  friends, they will be secreted from the public eye till the author who, at an advanced age, about the year 1761, died in her house. civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family Putney, I was delivered at the age of seven into the hands of Mr. John Kirkby, who exercised about eighteen months the office of my success his own mind, the natural world, the abstract sciences, and the best books in the English language; and if her reason was universities; and in the twenty-second year of his age, young Bayle almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to publication of my History fifteen years afterwards revived the and twenty years of age, who had read with taste, who thinks with been content with the more natural character of an English author. they return to England till some time after my father''s death.


id: 48762
title: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
author: Gibbon, Edward
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  Reading Of Edward Gibbon''s Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. rendering of Gibbon''s historical and literary masterpiece to be some years ago with the text-to-speech software then available, I barbarian, to have the "little stuffed voices" rendering, in their Having some background in Catholic Church Latin, and two years of queen; or "Geougen"--a collective noun, like "herd" or "squad", to rendering academically correct Latin, but, to venture arrogance, during which time a much improved speech engine became available. There are various types of flaws in this rendering, some correctible, have the time or inclination to reaudit all 120 hours of the reading occasional renderings of "...part i" -(roman numeral one) as "...part text for words "new" to the speech software), the product of Gibbon''s twenty year labor is in itself an empire of English, in arise because the source text itself, Project Gutenberg''s Gibbon,


