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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... Historian of the Roman Empire Gibbon's father died on 12 November 1770, his constitution undermined by financial anxiety. Guided by Holroyd, who was an efficient and practical man of business, the Gibbon family finances were reorganized ...
... Historian of the Roman Empire Gibbon's father died on 12 November 1770, his constitution undermined by financial anxiety. Guided by Holroyd, who was an efficient and practical man of business, the Gibbon family finances were reorganized ...
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... historian? Gibbon's first published work, the Essai sur l'étude de la littérature (1761), includes the comment that 'if philosophers are not always historians, it were, at any rate, to be wished that historians were always philosophers ...
... historian? Gibbon's first published work, the Essai sur l'étude de la littérature (1761), includes the comment that 'if philosophers are not always historians, it were, at any rate, to be wished that historians were always philosophers ...
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... historians; what can we say of the content of their historical vision? The historical problems which preoccupied them ... historian, in that The Decline and Fall broadly conforms to the style and content of the general model I have just ...
... historians; what can we say of the content of their historical vision? The historical problems which preoccupied them ... historian, in that The Decline and Fall broadly conforms to the style and content of the general model I have just ...
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... historian was not a question of a particular method which others, less original and gifted, might in their lesser spheres apply. In part, this was surely because a central component of Gibbon's achievement was his prose style which ...
... historian was not a question of a particular method which others, less original and gifted, might in their lesser spheres apply. In part, this was surely because a central component of Gibbon's achievement was his prose style which ...
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... historian who had fought against them, that the effusion of blood was the only circumstance which distinguished a field of battle from a field of exercise.39 It was the policy of the ablest generals, and even of the emperors themselves ...
... historian who had fought against them, that the effusion of blood was the only circumstance which distinguished a field of battle from a field of exercise.39 It was the policy of the ablest generals, and even of the emperors themselves ...
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CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
CHAPTERS XXVXXVII | |
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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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