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Subject:	Re: Gibbon? or Henry?
From:	"Peter V. Bergstrom" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:07:42 -0500
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For what it's worth --  H. Trevor Colbourn's book _The Lamp of Experience_
include this quote as from Henry's speech in his frontispiece and makes no
reference whatsoever to Gibbon.

Peter

Peter V. Bergstrom, PhD
Independent Historian
Computer & Historical Consultant
336-286-6854
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Comment / query:

Edward Gibbon may in fact have said or written the "Lamp of experience"
quotation that opens this Times of London article. But I would like to see a
well-documented source. A quick Google search brings up any number of
'Gibbon once said' references of the sort common to urban legends. A quick
and very limited check of a few readily searchable online Gibbon texts
resulted in zilch, zip, nada.

Jon Kukla
www.JonKukla.com <http://www.jonkukla.com/>

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