for envy, censure, and persecution. My own experience at least has
taught me a very different lesson: twenty happy years have been animated
by the labor of my history; and its success has given me a name, a rank,
a character in the world, to which I should not otherwise have been
entitled.... D'Alembert relates that as he was walking in the gardens of
Sans-souci with the King of Prussia, Frederick said to him, 'Do you see
that old woman, a poor weeder, asleep on that sunny bank? She is
probably a more happy Being than either of us.'" Now the comment of
Gibbon: "The King and the Philosopher may speak for themselves; for my
part I do not envy the old woman."[152]

[46] Autobiography, 270.

[47] Autobiography, 333.

[48] Autobiography, 311.

[49] Lectures, 763.

[50] Chief Periods European Hist., 75.

[51] Introduction, lxvii.

[52] Introduction, xxxi.

[53] Preface, ix.

[54] Introduction, xli.

[55] p. 324.

[56] Letters, I, 23.

[57] Autobiography, 310.

[58] Letters, II, 36.

[59] _Ibid._, 127.

[60] Autobiography, 196.

[61] Autobiography, 310. "I am more and more convinced that we have
both the right and power on our side." Letters, I, 248.

[62] Hill's ed. Gibbon Autobiography, 212, 213, 314.

[63] Letters, II, 249.

[64] Autobiography, 342.

[65] Letters, II, 310.

[66] Causeries du Lundi, viii, 469.

[67] Letters, II, 98.

[68] Trevelyan, II, 232.

[69] Lectures on the Hist. of Literature, 185.

[70] Autobiography, 196.

[71] Bury's ed., xxxv.

[72] Decline and Fall, Smith's ed., 236.

[73] _Ibid._, I, 349.

[74] Decline and Fall, Smith's ed., II, 35.

[75] II, 235.

[76] History, I, 1.

[77] Annals, I, 11.

[78] Bury's introduction, xxxv.

[79] Autobiography, 193.

[80] _Ibid._, 48, 59.

[81] _Ibid._, 67.

[82] Autobiography, 86 _et seq._; Hill's ed., 69, 291.

[83] Autobiography, 131.

[84] _Ibid._, 137.

[85] _Ibid._, 134.

[86] Autobiography, 139-142.

[87] V, 108, 130, 231.

[88] Autobiography, 141.

[89] Autobiography, 133.

[90] Hill's ed., 89, 293.

[91] Autobiography, 149.

[92] Autobiography, 149.

[93] _Ibid._, 161.

[94] Causeries du Lundi, VIII, 445.

[95] Autobiography, 167.

[96] Causeries du Lundi, VIII, 446.

[97] Autobiography, Hill's ed., 142.

[98]