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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... force against Roman Catholics, and the affair made sufficient stir for Lewis, a Roman Catholic bookseller of Covent Garden who had acted as go-between, to be summoned before the Privy Council and questioned. The crisis elicited from ...
... force against Roman Catholics, and the affair made sufficient stir for Lewis, a Roman Catholic bookseller of Covent Garden who had acted as go-between, to be summoned before the Privy Council and questioned. The crisis elicited from ...
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... forces which built it up, and what were the forces which undermined it? From these considerations flowed the need to investigate political forms, the effects exerted on society by commerce, the nature of virtue as it related both to ...
... forces which built it up, and what were the forces which undermined it? From these considerations flowed the need to investigate political forms, the effects exerted on society by commerce, the nature of virtue as it related both to ...
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... force was exhausted by the discord of independent chieftains; their valour was idly consumed in obscure and predatory excursions; and they often degraded their national dignity by condescending, for the hopes of spoil, to enlist under ...
... force was exhausted by the discord of independent chieftains; their valour was idly consumed in obscure and predatory excursions; and they often degraded their national dignity by condescending, for the hopes of spoil, to enlist under ...
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... in the plural number. In these, and in a thousand examples, the shades of distinction are often minute; and I can feel, where I cannot explain, the motives of my choice. Chapter I The Extent and Military Force of the Empire.
... in the plural number. In these, and in a thousand examples, the shades of distinction are often minute; and I can feel, where I cannot explain, the motives of my choice. Chapter I The Extent and Military Force of the Empire.
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Edward Gibbon David Womersley. Chapter. I. The Extent and Military Force of the Empire in the Age of the Antonines. [Introduction]. In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth ...
Edward Gibbon David Womersley. Chapter. I. The Extent and Military Force of the Empire in the Age of the Antonines. [Introduction]. In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth ...
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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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