Edward Gibbon
English historian
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade.
—Edward Gibbon, English historian, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776-1788
Posted on May 4, 2004 at 7:36 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
—Edward Gibbon, English historian, Memoirs of My Life, 1796
Posted on September 18, 2002 at 8:01 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
—Edward Gibbon, English historian, Memoirs of My Life
Posted on February 19, 2003 at 7:14 AM
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