Word: gibbon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...James Ford Rhodes, LL.D., delivered a lecture last night in Emerson Hall on the great historian, Edward Gibbon. As Mr. Rhodes is himself an historian of considerable note, this criticism was of especial interest...
...Gibbon's ambition from early youth, he said, was to be a writer of history, and his early life was one of constant study and preparation for his great life work, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." This work is one of the greatest historical works written, and has placed Gibbon with Hume and Robertson at the head of English historians. Gibbon's idea was that history, besides the necessary technicalities, should be literature, and this was a great factor in his success...
Professor Rhodes cited a few criticisms of Gibbon by his contemporary historians, and in conclusion said that his great work. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," was a masterly work, a basis for the study of all history...
...LECTURE "Edward Gibbon." James Ford Rhodes, LL.D. Emerson...
...opinion." Professor Rhodes has been president of the American Historical Association, and is a highly honored member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and of other New England bodies. His great power lies in his ability to reconstruct past times and public sentiment. Professor Rhodes's lecture tonight on "Edward Gibbon" should be especially interesting inasmuch as it is the study of one notable by another...