In a chapter he regards Edward Gibbon and Samuel Johnson's style as pompous.

在某一章，他认为爱德华·吉布森和萨缪尔·约翰逊的风格是非常浮华的。

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In Lausanne, they paid theirrespects at the house of Edward Gibbon, where he penned his revered epichistory, “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”

在洛桑市，他们带着崇敬的心情去了爱德华吉本的家，在那里爱德华写下了“罗马兴衰史”。

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Human beings and all their works are subject, as Edward Gibbon said, to “the vicissitudes of fortune.”

正如爱德华.吉本所言，人类本身，以及人类所有的努力，都取决于“变化莫测的命运”。

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Trevor- Roper constantly measured himself against the two great masters of English historical writing Macaulay and Edward Gibbon.

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Throughout his life, Kennan was a prolific writer and an exceptional stylist, somewhat in the manner of his historian hero, Edward Gibbon.

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His greatest hero, however, was Edward Gibbon, the 18th-century historian.

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