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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... Church. His father sent him to Lausanne, in Switzerland, where, while studying Greek and French for the next five years, he rejoined the Protestant Church. In 1761 he published his Essai sur l'étude de la littérature; the English ...
... Church. His father sent him to Lausanne, in Switzerland, where, while studying Greek and French for the next five years, he rejoined the Protestant Church. In 1761 he published his Essai sur l'étude de la littérature; the English ...
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... Church divinity and politics', but also 'some valuable Editions of the Classics and Fathers' (A, p. 248). He began to reacquaint himself with 'the purity, the grace, the idiom, of the English style' by studying Swift and Addison, and ...
... Church divinity and politics', but also 'some valuable Editions of the Classics and Fathers' (A, p. 248). He began to reacquaint himself with 'the purity, the grace, the idiom, of the English style' by studying Swift and Addison, and ...
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... church created trouble for him in his own day, and it is probably still his most notorious characteristic as a writer. But Gibbon, although he seems not to have enjoyed any lively Christian faith himself (at least after his brush with ...
... church created trouble for him in his own day, and it is probably still his most notorious characteristic as a writer. But Gibbon, although he seems not to have enjoyed any lively Christian faith himself (at least after his brush with ...
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... church, is not tenable in the face of the stubborn fact of the extraordinary simultaneity of the suppression of paganism and the beginning of Christian superstition. What took place, rather, was a stroke of deliberate and conscious ...
... church, is not tenable in the face of the stubborn fact of the extraordinary simultaneity of the suppression of paganism and the beginning of Christian superstition. What took place, rather, was a stroke of deliberate and conscious ...
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... church has very seldom been seen on the side of the people. A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a ...
... church has very seldom been seen on the side of the people. A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a ...
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CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
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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