Memoirs of My Life and Writings
by Edward Gibbon

Introduction
My Family South Sea Scheme
Bill of Pains —William Law
My Birth Catherine Porten — John Kirkby
Dr. Wooddeson's School Mother's Death
Catherine Porten
Westminster School
Magdalen College, College Life
Remarks Upon
My First Tutor
Decide To Write History
Conversion to Catholicism
Example of Chillingworth and Bayle
Removed to Lausanne
Reflections on my situation
M Pavilliard — Receive Sacrament
Books Read, and Study Pursued
Tour of Switzerland;
Correspond With Literary Characters
Meet Voltaire —Who Performs
Mademoiselle Curchod
Education at Lausanne
Return to England —What I Did
Essai sur l'Étude de la Littérature
Dr Maty — A Criticism
Hampshire Militia —Journal —Summary
Resume Studies
Paris And Persons
Elvira — Society of Spring — Holroyd
Italian Journey
Lausanne StudiesDeyverdun
A History (Hume's Criticism)
Work With Deyverdun
Father's Situation and Death
Decline and Fall In London
Publish 1st VolumeHume's Reaction
Critics of Chapters 15 & 16
Mémoire Justificatif
Publish Volumes 2 & 3 — Reaction
Return To Lausanne
Visit Lord Sheffield In England
Final PublicationDeyverdun's Death
French Revolution Mortality
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