The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson

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EDUCATION / STUDYING THE CLASSICS

With respect to the Roman history, if you have read Suetonius and Tacitus, Gibbon's will be sufficient to conduct you down to the time when that empire broke to pieces and the modern states of Europe arose out of them. As I do not suppose you can get a copy of Gibbon you may leave him for the next winter when I shall have mine in Virginia. In the meanwhile study well Blair, Mason, Quintihan, and endeavor to catch the oratorical style of Bolingbroke.

to John Garland Jefferson, 14 April 1793