Quote#Books & Reading
As to Gibbon, I have read a part of his third volume. Though a writer…
Quote byRichard Hurd · 1720–1808
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Rev. Dr. Balguy (7 July 1788), quoted in Francis Kilvert, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Rev. Richard Hurd, D. D., Lord Bishop of Worcester; With a Selection From His Correspondence and Other Unpublished Papers (1860), p. 167.
English (original)
As to Gibbon, I have read a part of his third volume. Though a writer of sense, parts, and industry, I read him with little pleasure. His loaded and luxuriant style is disgusting to the last degree; and his work is polluted every where by the most immoral as well as irreligious insinuations.
— Richard Hurd
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