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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... character, in the world, to which [he] should not otherwise have been entitled' (A, p. 346). But at the outset of his literary career, those priorities were necessarily reversed: the book received its character from its author. How did ...
... character, in the world, to which [he] should not otherwise have been entitled' (A, p. 346). But at the outset of his literary career, those priorities were necessarily reversed: the book received its character from its author. How did ...
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... character. But he seems first to have discussed the possibility of writing a vindication with William Robertson over dinner when Davis's Examination was not yet published, and when he had been enraged by the publication of the second ...
... character. But he seems first to have discussed the possibility of writing a vindication with William Robertson over dinner when Davis's Examination was not yet published, and when he had been enraged by the publication of the second ...
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... character of an Englishman', his aesthetic judgements (as when for instance he shrewdly described an enthusiasm for Shakespeare as the 'first duty' [A, p. 149] of an Englishman) demonstrate his freedom from any narrowly national outlook ...
... character of an Englishman', his aesthetic judgements (as when for instance he shrewdly described an enthusiasm for Shakespeare as the 'first duty' [A, p. 149] of an Englishman) demonstrate his freedom from any narrowly national outlook ...
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... character of his subjects: The western world was oppressed by the Goths and Vandals, who fled before the Huns; but the atchievements of the Huns themselves were not adequate to their power and prosperity. Their victorious hords had ...
... character of his subjects: The western world was oppressed by the Goths and Vandals, who fled before the Huns; but the atchievements of the Huns themselves were not adequate to their power and prosperity. Their victorious hords had ...
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... character of an Englishman: I am proud of my birth in a free and enlightened country; and the approbation of that country is the best and most honourable reward of my labours. Were I ambitious of any other Patron than the public, I ...
... character of an Englishman: I am proud of my birth in a free and enlightened country; and the approbation of that country is the best and most honourable reward of my labours. Were I ambitious of any other Patron than the public, I ...
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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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