The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePenguin UK, 19. juni 2000 - 848 sider Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the readerto acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the full variety of Gibbon's achievement. |
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... Christianity Considered (1781), Joseph Priestley's History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782) and Joseph White's Bampton Lectures (1784); Gibbon had therefore managed to displease all stripes of religious opinion, from High ...
... Christianity Considered (1781), Joseph Priestley's History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782) and Joseph White's Bampton Lectures (1784); Gibbon had therefore managed to displease all stripes of religious opinion, from High ...
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... Christianity. His ironic treatment of the established church created trouble for him in his own day, and it is ... Christian church had played an important role in keeping civil society alive during the collapse of the Roman empire ...
... Christianity. His ironic treatment of the established church created trouble for him in his own day, and it is ... Christian church had played an important role in keeping civil society alive during the collapse of the Roman empire ...
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... Christians, whom he stigmatizes as 'those Barbarians, who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious ... Christian model; and some symptoms of degeneracy may be observed even in the first generations which adopted and ...
... Christians, whom he stigmatizes as 'those Barbarians, who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious ... Christian model; and some symptoms of degeneracy may be observed even in the first generations which adopted and ...
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... Christianity, considered purely as a religion, might nevertheless be seen in a positive light. For the recurrence of pagan ... Christian superstition. What took place, rather, was a stroke of deliberate and conscious policy, in which ...
... Christianity, considered purely as a religion, might nevertheless be seen in a positive light. For the recurrence of pagan ... Christian superstition. What took place, rather, was a stroke of deliberate and conscious policy, in which ...
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CHAPTER XV | |
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1914 |
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