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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... freedom from any narrowly national outlook. This freedom of mind left a trace even on that most obvious and celebrated feature of his prose, namely his ironic wit: [The younger Gordian's] manners were less pure, but his character was ...
... freedom from any narrowly national outlook. This freedom of mind left a trace even on that most obvious and celebrated feature of his prose, namely his ironic wit: [The younger Gordian's] manners were less pure, but his character was ...
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... freedom of character which sometimes caused Gibbon to offend English susceptibilities also ensured that his richly imaginative apprehension of the past was never confined within the boundaries of received opinion. How did that ...
... freedom of character which sometimes caused Gibbon to offend English susceptibilities also ensured that his richly imaginative apprehension of the past was never confined within the boundaries of received opinion. How did that ...
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... freedom is partly demonstrated through the way his narrative continually checks the general insights of eighteenth-century philosophy against the detail of the historical record. That freedom and flexibility of judgement is visible most ...
... freedom is partly demonstrated through the way his narrative continually checks the general insights of eighteenth-century philosophy against the detail of the historical record. That freedom and flexibility of judgement is visible most ...
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... freedom and variety of study to the design and composition of a regular work, which animates, while it confines, the daily application of the Author. Caprice and accident may influence my choice; but the dexterity of self-love will ...
... freedom and variety of study to the design and composition of a regular work, which animates, while it confines, the daily application of the Author. Caprice and accident may influence my choice; but the dexterity of self-love will ...
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... the expence and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield.
... the expence and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield.
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CHAPTER XXII | |
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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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