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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... contempt: Byzantium. In conversation Horace Walpole reproved Gibbon for pitching on 'so disgusting a subject as the Constantinopolitan history.'5 It was a disgust which Gibbon partially shared, as his comments on what he saw as the ...
... contempt: Byzantium. In conversation Horace Walpole reproved Gibbon for pitching on 'so disgusting a subject as the Constantinopolitan history.'5 It was a disgust which Gibbon partially shared, as his comments on what he saw as the ...
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... contempt from gloomy hills assailed by the winter tempest, from lakes concealed in a blue mist, and from cold and lonely heaths, over which the deer of the forest were chased by a troop of naked barbarians.12 [Conquest of Dacia; the ...
... contempt from gloomy hills assailed by the winter tempest, from lakes concealed in a blue mist, and from cold and lonely heaths, over which the deer of the forest were chased by a troop of naked barbarians.12 [Conquest of Dacia; the ...
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... contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.15 Decebalus, the Dacian king, approved himself a rival not unworthy of Trajan; nor did he despair of his own and the public ...
... contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.15 Decebalus, the Dacian king, approved himself a rival not unworthy of Trajan; nor did he despair of his own and the public ...
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... contempt among the polished and enlightened orders of society.7 Notwithstanding the fashionable irreligion which prevailed in the age of the Antonines, both the interest of the priests and the credulity of the people were sufficiently ...
... contempt among the polished and enlightened orders of society.7 Notwithstanding the fashionable irreligion which prevailed in the age of the Antonines, both the interest of the priests and the credulity of the people were sufficiently ...
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Edward Gibbon David Womersley. they approached, with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence, the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.8 [Of the Magistrate.] It is not easy to conceive from what ...
Edward Gibbon David Womersley. they approached, with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence, the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.8 [Of the Magistrate.] It is not easy to conceive from what ...
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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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