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There are some & or 10 ty a — a ‘ 4 Wee ~>, eae % J gee a aes gf ACTIVE GIBBON. Gibbon, Edward, an English historian; born in Putney, April 27, 1737; studied at Westminster School, Magdalen College, Oxford, and Lausanne, In 1763 he went to Italy; and while sitting amid the ruins of the Capitol at Rome, he conceived the idea of writing the history of the decline and fall of that city. In the meantime he joined M. Deyvurdun, a Swi scholar, in publishing a journal called “Literary Memoirs of Great Britain,” which met with no succe . In 1770 he began his celebrated history of the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” He died in London, Jan. 16, 1794.