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. |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 93
Side
... faith by Baker, one of the chaplains of the Sardinian ambassador. If the'humanity of the age' (A, p. 88) was averse to persecution, there were still in 1753 numerous penal statutes in force against Roman Catholics, and the affair made ...
... faith by Baker, one of the chaplains of the Sardinian ambassador. If the'humanity of the age' (A, p. 88) was averse to persecution, there were still in 1753 numerous penal statutes in force against Roman Catholics, and the affair made ...
Side
... faith a passage or a fact were reduced to depend. I shall soon revisit the banks of the lake of Lausanne, a country which I have known and loved from my early youth. Under a mild government, amidst a beauteous landskip, in a life of ...
... faith a passage or a fact were reduced to depend. I shall soon revisit the banks of the lake of Lausanne, a country which I have known and loved from my early youth. Under a mild government, amidst a beauteous landskip, in a life of ...
Side
... faith the different religions of the earth.3 Fear, gratitude, and curiosity, a dream or an omen, a singular disorder, or a distant journey, perpetually disposed him to multiply the articles of his belief, and to enlarge the list of his ...
... faith the different religions of the earth.3 Fear, gratitude, and curiosity, a dream or an omen, a singular disorder, or a distant journey, perpetually disposed him to multiply the articles of his belief, and to enlarge the list of his ...
Side
Du har nådd visningsgrensen for denne boken.
Du har nådd visningsgrensen for denne boken.
Side
Du har nådd visningsgrensen for denne boken.
Du har nådd visningsgrensen for denne boken.
Innhold
CHAPTERS VIIIXIV | |
CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
CHAPTERS XXVXXVII | |
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1827 |
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1914 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
affected ancient appeared arms army arts Assyria Attila authority Barbarians Belisarius body camp cause century CHAPTER character Christian church civil command conquest Constantinople danger death Decline devotion divine East embraced emperor empire enemy equal execution exercise eyes faith Fall father favour force formed fortune four freedom friends Gibbon Greek guards hands head historian honour hope human hundred Huns Imperial important interest Italy Julian Justinian king labour laws less lives London Mahomet mankind measure merit military mind nature observed Pagans palace Paris peace perhaps Persian person philosopher possessed present prince prophet provinces rank reason received reign religion respective restored Roman Roman empire Rome ruin secret secure senate soldiers soon spirit strength subjects success supply supported temple thousand throne troops victory virtue vols walls whole zeal