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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... observed a very prudent temperament; but it was impossible to treat the subject so as not to give grounds of suspicion against you, and you may expect that a clamour will arise. (A, p. 312, n. 30) Hume, of all men, would not have ...
... observed a very prudent temperament; but it was impossible to treat the subject so as not to give grounds of suspicion against you, and you may expect that a clamour will arise. (A, p. 312, n. 30) Hume, of all men, would not have ...
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... observed even in the first generations which adopted and cherished this pernicious innovation. (ADF, p.355) This was, then, a lapse from simplicity into plurality: the unity of the Godhead was divided into the literal fragments which ...
... observed even in the first generations which adopted and cherished this pernicious innovation. (ADF, p.355) This was, then, a lapse from simplicity into plurality: the unity of the Godhead was divided into the literal fragments which ...
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... observed, that the island is almost divided into two unequal parts by the opposite gulfs, or, as they are now called, the Friths of Scotland. Across the narrow interval of about forty miles, he had drawn a line of military stations ...
... observed, that the island is almost divided into two unequal parts by the opposite gulfs, or, as they are now called, the Friths of Scotland. Across the narrow interval of about forty miles, he had drawn a line of military stations ...
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... observed, that the arms destined to this imitation of war, should be of double the weight which was required in real action.37 It is not the purpose of this work to enter into any minute description of the Roman exercises. We shall only ...
... observed, that the arms destined to this imitation of war, should be of double the weight which was required in real action.37 It is not the purpose of this work to enter into any minute description of the Roman exercises. We shall only ...
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... observe, that if we except Bohemia, Moravia, the northern skirts of Austria, and a part of Hungary, between the Teyss and the Danube, all the other dominions of the House of Austria were comprised within the limits of the Roman empire ...
... observe, that if we except Bohemia, Moravia, the northern skirts of Austria, and a part of Hungary, between the Teyss and the Danube, all the other dominions of the House of Austria were comprised within the limits of the Roman empire ...
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CHAPTER III | |
CHAPTERS IVVI | |
CHAPTERS VIIIXIV | |
CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
CHAPTERS XXVXXVII | |
CHAPTER VII | |
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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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