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Date: w. 1788-93, 1796 (rev. 1815, 1827, 1837, 1897)
"Such hardships may steel the mind and body against the injuries of fortune; but my timid reserve was astonished by the crowd and tumult of the school; the want of strength and activity disqualified me for the sports of the play-field; nor have I forgotten how often in the year forty-six I was re...
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
