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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... 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 Church dogmatists ...
... 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 Church dogmatists ...
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... total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may therefore deserve to be considered, as a singular event in the history of the human mind' (ADF, p. 334). However, the apparent extinction of paganism was an illusion.
... total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may therefore deserve to be considered, as a singular event in the history of the human mind' (ADF, p. 334). However, the apparent extinction of paganism was an illusion.
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... Considered from a purely religious standpoint, the lapse into superstition was indeed degeneracy: 'The sublime and simple theology of the primitive Christians was gradually corrupted; and the MONARCHY of heaven, already clouded by ...
... Considered from a purely religious standpoint, the lapse into superstition was indeed degeneracy: 'The sublime and simple theology of the primitive Christians was gradually corrupted; and the MONARCHY of heaven, already clouded by ...
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... considered purely as a religion, might nevertheless be seen in a positive light. For the recurrence of pagan forms in Christianity cannot be attributed to the 'same uniform original spirit of superstition' (ADF, p. 360). Gibbon insists ...
... considered purely as a religion, might nevertheless be seen in a positive light. For the recurrence of pagan forms in Christianity cannot be attributed to the 'same uniform original spirit of superstition' (ADF, p. 360). Gibbon insists ...
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... considered as an insolent invasion of the Imperial prerogative; and it became the duty, as well as interest, of every Roman general, to guard the frontiers intrusted to his care, without aspiring to conquests which might have proved no ...
... considered as an insolent invasion of the Imperial prerogative; and it became the duty, as well as interest, of every Roman general, to guard the frontiers intrusted to his care, without aspiring to conquests which might have proved no ...
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CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
CHAPTERS XXVXXVII | |
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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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