Burke, Edmund--Dalrymple, Sir David, transl.

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This translation is essentially a criticism of Gibbon's Decline and Fall, as evinced by Dalrymple's comments at the end of the preface:

"While engaged in the drawing up of those Notes, I had occasion to remark some strange inaccuracies in the work of a celebrated Historian; and I have used the liberty of pointing them out.  Even  in the first volume of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and independently of the two famous chapters, there is a wide field for literary and historical criticism" (p.viii)

an interesting association copy.  Although Gibbon is regarded as being in the vanguard of the English Enlightenment his political beliefts were much more in line with conservatives such as Edmund Burke, rejecting the democratic movements of the time as well as the so called "rights of man".