[Gibbon by James Cotter Morison]@TWC D-Link bookGibbon CHAPTER VIII 1/16
CHAPTER VIII. THE LAST TEN YEARS OF HIS LIFE IN LAUSANNE. After the preliminary troubles which met him on his arrival at Lausanne, Gibbon had four years of unbroken calm and steady work, of which there is nothing to record beyond the fact that they were filled with peaceful industry.
"One day," he wrote, "glides by another in tranquil uniformity." During the whole period he never stirred ten miles out of Lausanne.
He had nearly completed the fourth volume before he left England.
Then came an interruption of a year--consumed in the break-up of his London establishment, his journey, the transport of his library, the delay in getting settled at Lausanne. Then he sat down in grim earnest to finish his task, and certainly the speed he used, considering the quality of the work, left nothing to be desired.
He achieved the fifth volume in twenty-one months, and the sixth in little more than a year.
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