Edward Gibbon - The winds and the waves are always on the side of t

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 6, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1788, p. 453.

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About the Author

Edward Gibbon

Born: May 8, 1737
Died: January 16, 1794
Nationality: British
Profession: Historian

Biography

Edward Gibbon FRS was an English historian, writer and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788 and is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organised religion.

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