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A Syllabic Difference
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GIBBON, the historian, was one day attending the trial of Warren
Hastings in Westminster Hall, and Sheridan, having perceived him there,
took occasion to mention the luminous author of The Decline and
Fall. After he had finished, one of his friends reproached him with
flattering Gibbon. Why, what did I say of him? asked Sheridan. You
called him the luminous author.--Luminous! Oh, I meant voluminous!
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