"Such hardships may steel the mind and body against the injuries of fortune; but my timid reserve was astonished by the crowd and tumult of the school; the want of strength and activity disqualified me for the sports of the play-field; nor have I forgotten how often in the year forty-six I was reviled and buffetted for the sins of my Tory ancestors."
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
3 entries in ESTC (1796).<br>
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See "Memoirs of My Life and Writings" in volume I of <u>Miscellaneous Works: of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself: Illustrated from His Letters, With Occasional Notes and Narrative, by John Lord Sheffield.</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell, 1796). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T79696">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004849601.0001.001">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Most text drawn from <u>Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon</u> Ed. Oliver Farrar Emerson (London: Athenaeum Press, 1898). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=53oqAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books Edition</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6031/6031-h/6031-h.htm">Link to Project Gutenberg</a>&gt; [text copied from PG, pagination for Google Book scan].