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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... causes and effects' (MW, iv. 63). But what kind of causes did the philosophic historian perceive? In the first place, philosophic historiography was secular in its focus. Human agency accomplished everything, although not in the way ...
... causes and effects' (MW, iv. 63). But what kind of causes did the philosophic historian perceive? In the first place, philosophic historiography was secular in its focus. Human agency accomplished everything, although not in the way ...
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... causes ordering their own lives. Thirdly, the sequences of human society would typically appear oxymoronic, as developments arose from the actions of individuals and the policies of institutions apparently repugnant or antagonistic to ...
... causes ordering their own lives. Thirdly, the sequences of human society would typically appear oxymoronic, as developments arose from the actions of individuals and the policies of institutions apparently repugnant or antagonistic to ...
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... cause and effect, and so he enters a major qualification of the popular understanding of the Huns as purely destructive. Such indeed may have been their intentions, actuated as they were by the 'savage and destructive spirit' (ADF, p ...
... cause and effect, and so he enters a major qualification of the popular understanding of the Huns as purely destructive. Such indeed may have been their intentions, actuated as they were by the 'savage and destructive spirit' (ADF, p ...
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... cause; but, as it was impossible for them to conceive the creation of matter, the workman in the Stoic philosophy was not sufficiently distinguished from the work; whilst, on the contrary, the spiritual God of Plato and his disciples ...
... cause; but, as it was impossible for them to conceive the creation of matter, the workman in the Stoic philosophy was not sufficiently distinguished from the work; whilst, on the contrary, the spiritual God of Plato and his disciples ...
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... cause of Rome, were rewarded with a nominal alliance, and insensibly sunk into real servitude. The public authority was every where exercised by the ministers of the senate and of the emperors, and that authority was absolute, and ...
... cause of Rome, were rewarded with a nominal alliance, and insensibly sunk into real servitude. The public authority was every where exercised by the ministers of the senate and of the emperors, and that authority was absolute, and ...
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CHAPTER XXIII | |
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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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