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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... Gaul seemed to invite their arms; the pleasing, though doubtful intelligence of a pearl fishery, attracted their avarice;6 and as Britain was viewed in the light of a distinct and insulated world, the conquest scarcely formed any ...
... Gaul seemed to invite their arms; the pleasing, though doubtful intelligence of a pearl fishery, attracted their avarice;6 and as Britain was viewed in the light of a distinct and insulated world, the conquest scarcely formed any ...
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... Gaul and Britain, and a great number of vessels constantly maintained on the Rhine and Danube, to harass the country, or to intercept the passage of the barbarians.68 If we review this general state of the Imperial forces; of the ...
... Gaul and Britain, and a great number of vessels constantly maintained on the Rhine and Danube, to harass the country, or to intercept the passage of the barbarians.68 If we review this general state of the Imperial forces; of the ...
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... obstinate. Confident in the strength of their mountains, they were the last who submitted to the arms of Rome, and the first who threw off the yoke of the Arabs. [Gaul.] Ancient Gaul, as it contained the whole country between the.
... obstinate. Confident in the strength of their mountains, they were the last who submitted to the arms of Rome, and the first who threw off the yoke of the Arabs. [Gaul.] Ancient Gaul, as it contained the whole country between the.
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... Gaul equally adapted to the progress of the legions, to the course of the rivers, and to the principal national distinctions, which had comprehended above an hundred independent states.71 The seacoast of the Mediterranean, Languedoc ...
... Gaul equally adapted to the progress of the legions, to the course of the rivers, and to the principal national distinctions, which had comprehended above an hundred independent states.71 The seacoast of the Mediterranean, Languedoc ...
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... Gaul, and Britain were peopled by the same hardy race of savages. Before they yielded to the Roman arms, they often ... Gauls, who settling themselves along the banks of the Po, from Piedmont to Romagna, carried their arms and diffused ...
... Gaul, and Britain were peopled by the same hardy race of savages. Before they yielded to the Roman arms, they often ... Gauls, who settling themselves along the banks of the Po, from Piedmont to Romagna, carried their arms and diffused ...
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CHAPTER XV | |
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CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
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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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