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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... devotion; nor was it esteemed less impious, than it was ignominious, to abandon that sacred ensign in the hour of danger.34 These motives, which derived their strength from the imagination, were enforced by fears and hopes of a more.
... devotion; nor was it esteemed less impious, than it was ignominious, to abandon that sacred ensign in the hour of danger.34 These motives, which derived their strength from the imagination, were enforced by fears and hopes of a more.
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... devotion, and the pleasures of the meanest citizen. The last mentioned of those edifices deserve our peculiar attention. The boldness of the enterprise, the solidity of the execution, and the uses to which they were subservient, rank ...
... devotion, and the pleasures of the meanest citizen. The last mentioned of those edifices deserve our peculiar attention. The boldness of the enterprise, the solidity of the execution, and the uses to which they were subservient, rank ...
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... devotion of the vulgar requires. As soon as their divinity was established by law, it sunk into oblivion, without contributing either to their own fame, or to the dignity of succeeding princes. [Titles of Augustus and Cæsar.] In the ...
... devotion of the vulgar requires. As soon as their divinity was established by law, it sunk into oblivion, without contributing either to their own fame, or to the dignity of succeeding princes. [Titles of Augustus and Cæsar.] In the ...
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CHAPTERS VIIIXIV | |
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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