At the age of fifteen, Edward Gibbon, the historian, had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs, Persians, Tartars and Turks. lie published his first work when aged twenty-four.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 2 October 1934, Page 1
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