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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... Human agency accomplished everything, although not in the way that the actors themselves intended. So the philosophic historian did not offer explanations of the past which depended on a minute and particular divine providence. Secondly ...
... Human agency accomplished everything, although not in the way that the actors themselves intended. So the philosophic historian did not offer explanations of the past which depended on a minute and particular divine providence. Secondly ...
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... human society would typically appear oxymoronic, as developments arose from the actions of individuals and the policies of institutions apparently repugnant or antagonistic to them. So much for the intellectual style of the philosophic ...
... human society would typically appear oxymoronic, as developments arose from the actions of individuals and the policies of institutions apparently repugnant or antagonistic to them. So much for the intellectual style of the philosophic ...
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... human character, in which qualities previously distinct or contrary had met and mingled. Their scavenging of the putrescent corpse of the Western empire contributed in ways which were unintended and unanticipated, yet nevertheless ...
... human character, in which qualities previously distinct or contrary had met and mingled. Their scavenging of the putrescent corpse of the Western empire contributed in ways which were unintended and unanticipated, yet nevertheless ...
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... human art had been perpetually diffused along the coast of the Mediterranean and the banks of the Nile, from ancient Troy to the Egyptian Thebes. Abraham had been relieved by the well-known plenty of Egypt; the same country, a small and ...
... human art had been perpetually diffused along the coast of the Mediterranean and the banks of the Nile, from ancient Troy to the Egyptian Thebes. Abraham had been relieved by the well-known plenty of Egypt; the same country, a small and ...
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... human understanding.6 Of the four most celebrated schools, the Stoics and the Platonists endeavoured to reconcile the jarring interests of reason and piety. They have left us the most sublime proofs of the existence and perfections of ...
... human understanding.6 Of the four most celebrated schools, the Stoics and the Platonists endeavoured to reconcile the jarring interests of reason and piety. They have left us the most sublime proofs of the existence and perfections of ...
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CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
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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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