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Edward Gibbon SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE EDWARD GIBBON DISAMBIGUATION: There was also, in colonial Boston, a Major General Edward Gibbons (with an “s”). “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD GIBBON SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE 1737 May 8, Sunday (Old Style): Edward Gibbon was born. NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT Edward Gibbon “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE EDWARD GIBBON 1776 Edward Gibbon’s THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. NATURE: “The winds and waves,” said Gibbon, “are always on the side of the ablest navigators.” LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Edward Gibbon HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD GIBBON SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE 1780 William Hayley’s ESSAY ON HISTORY, in three epistles, addressed to Edward Gibbon. THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Edward Gibbon HDT WHAT? INDEX SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE EDWARD GIBBON 1792 May 30, Wednesday: At the meeting of his Association, which was held at Nottingham, the Reverend William Carey preached on ISAIAH 54: 2,3, announcing the two memorable divisions of his disclosure: “Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.” Edward Gibbon wrote to Member of Parliament John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield expressing his opinion about the recent vote against slavery (Sheffield had been in favor of black slavery as necessary for the continuance of Britain’s supply of sugar), expressed a hope that humanity was the only motive — he was fearful of these new wild ideas about the rights and natural equality of man. In the slave question you triumphed last session, in this you have been defeated. What is the cause of this alteration? If it proceeded only from an impulse of humanity, I cannot be displeased, even with an error: since it is very likely that my own vote (had I possessed one) would have been added to the majority. But in this rage against slavery, in the numerous petitions against the slave trade, was there no leaven of new democratical principles? no wild ideas of the rights and natural equality of man? It is these I fear. WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF Edward Gibbon “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD GIBBON SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE 1794 January 16, Thursday, Edward Gibbon died in London. HDT WHAT? INDEX SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE EDWARD GIBBON 1796 Henry Thoreau’s copy of THE LIFE OF DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF had been printed in this year at Salem for Cushing and Carlton, at the Bible and Heart: This edition’s preface includes a letter by Richard Price. It also includes, as pages 82-126, a continuation about Franklin’s life composed by Henry Steuber, and as pages 127-132, “Extracts from the last will and testament of Dr. Franklin.” DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is very significantly different from every “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” book you have ever perused! –To grasp what Thoreau knew, and what Thoreau did not know, of the life of Franklin, one must consult this book that he had on his bookshelf in his garret in Concord. HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD GIBBON SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE Edward Gibbon’s autobiography, MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE: I see that you are turning a broad furrow among the books, but I trust that some very private journal all the while holds its own through their midst. Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. I should say read Goethe’s Autobiography by all means, also Gibbon’s Haydon the Painter’s– & our Franklin’s of course; perhaps also Alfieris, Benvenuto Cellini’s, & De Quincey’s Confessions of an Opium Eater – since you like Autobiography. I think you must read Coleridge again & further – skipping all his theology – i.e. if you value precise definitions & a discriminating use of language. By the way, read De Quincey’s reminiscences of Coleridge & Wordsworth. THOMAS DE QUINCEY VITTORIO ALFIERI BENVENUTO CELLINI BENJAMIN FRANKLIN THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Edward Gibbon HDT WHAT? INDEX SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE EDWARD GIBBON 1812 Prussia agreed to allow French troops free passage in case of war with Russia. In June, Napoléon Bonaparte invaded Russia with a “Grand Armée of Twenty Nations” of 550,000, then returned in defeat in the winter with no more than 100,000 escaping Russia and only some 20,000 managing eventually to return to their homes in France.1 François Pierre Guillaume Guizot translated Edward Gibbon’s THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, with additional notes. Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes, grand-master of the university of France, selected him to take the chair of modern history at the Sorbonne. He got married with Mme. Pauline de Meulan. 1. Although it has been conventional to ascribe his defeat to an unexpectedly severe Russian winter, actually that winter was unexpectedly mild one. Some of the French fell of heat prostration and sunstroke during a persistent summer heat wave, some drowned during an attempt to ford a thawed river, and then many were carried away by a lice-borne infection. HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD GIBBON SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE 1818 While still an undergraduate at Exeter College of Oxford University, Alexander Dyce edited John William Jarvis’s attempt at a dictionary of the language of William Shakespeare. (Lieutenant-General Alexander Dyce of the East India Company’s Madras infantry’s plan was for his son likewise to enter the service of the East India Company — but the college student would soon elect instead to take holy orders.) We would derive our term “bowdlerize” from Thomas Bowdler’s activities in this year, expurgating a ten- volume edition of William Shakespeare’s plays entitled FAMILY SHAKESPEARE, “in which nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.” HDT WHAT? INDEX SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE EDWARD GIBBON In the next six years this edition would go through four printings and, emboldened with his success, the expurgator would turn to producing a similarly needed six-volume reduction of Edward Gibbon’s 12- volume THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT Edward Gibbon “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD GIBBON SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE 1819 Abba Francis reminisced in later life that “I did not love to study, but books were always attractive. In 1819 I went to pass a year with Miss [Abba] Allyn of Duxbury (daughter of Rev. John Allyn, the parish minister), who assisted me in reviewing my studies; and with her I studied French, Latin, botany, read history extensively, and made notes on many books, such as Hume, Gibbon, Hallam’s Middle Ages, Robertson’s Charles V, etc.” DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. Edward Gibbon “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE EDWARD GIBBON 1833 August 28, Wednesday: Waldo Emerson had met, while in Rome, the Gustave d’Eichthal who had sent Saint- Simonian materials to Thomas Carlyle, and this scion of a Jewish banking family had given to the American tourist a letter of introduction to the sympathetic Scottish author. On this August day, therefore, Emerson showed up on the doorstep of the farmhouse at Craigenputtock — this is how Emerson would describe, later, how the visit had gone down, in his ENGLISH TRAITS: From Edinburgh I went to the Highlands. On my return, I came from Glasgow to Dumfries, and being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock. It was a farm in Nithsdale, in the parish of Dunscore, sixteen miles distant. No public coach passed near it, so I took a private carriage from the inn. I found the house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did not need to hide from his readers, and as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command; clinging to his northern accent with evident relish; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humor, which floated every thing he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs, and it was very pleasant to learn what was predestined to be a pretty mythology. Few were the objects and lonely the man, “not a person to speak to within sixteen miles except the minister of Dunscore;” so that books inevitably made his topics. [continued on following screen] HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD GIBBON SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE He had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. “Blackwood’s” was the “sand magazine;” “Fraser’s” nearer approach to possibility of life was the “mud magazine;” a piece of road near by that marked some failed enterprise was the “grave of the last sixpence.” When too much praise of any genius annoyed him, he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig.
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