The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 95
tering. He had been long previously soli-cited by his friends to offer himself for a seat in parlia-ment; but this he constantly declined, from a persuasion,as he said, that he could perform his part better al. DruryLane than at a Westminster.E GARRICK. [ENGLAND. Mr. Garrick was hospitable and… … GIBBON. This celebrated historian was bora at Putney, in1737, of a genteel family. Being of a delicate consti-tution, he was first placed at a private school at Kings-ton, and next at Westminster, from whence he wasremoved to Magdalen College, Oxford. At an earlyage he devoted himself to books of…
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