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xxxiv There are also cases, where something is added which, without changing the general sense, renders a statement fuller, more picturesque, or more vivid. Thus:—

It may be noticed in this connexion that at a later period Gibbon set to work to revise the second edition, but did not get further than p. 32 of the first volume. His own copy with autograph marginal notes was exhibited last year, on the occasion of the Gibbon Centenary, by the