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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... . 'According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English Gentleman' (A, p. 198); Gibbon's father had agreed, after some travailing, to pay for a European tour. Within seven days.
... . 'According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English Gentleman' (A, p. 198); Gibbon's father had agreed, after some travailing, to pay for a European tour. Within seven days.
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... perhaps twenty years', at 12.45 p.m. on 16 January 1794, Gibbon died. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Reviewing Gibbon's early life, the striking fact emerges that his most effectual education occurred outside ...
... perhaps twenty years', at 12.45 p.m. on 16 January 1794, Gibbon died. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Reviewing Gibbon's early life, the striking fact emerges that his most effectual education occurred outside ...
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... perhaps to have been less a unification than an endless process of flexible negotiation. Gibbon's intellectual freedom is partly demonstrated through the way his narrative continually checks the general insights of eighteenth-century ...
... perhaps to have been less a unification than an endless process of flexible negotiation. Gibbon's intellectual freedom is partly demonstrated through the way his narrative continually checks the general insights of eighteenth-century ...
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... perhaps somewhere in the plateau of this reign that the frontier between the ancient and the modern might be found. The true heroism of Justinian's reign was thus not military but material. It was to be found in the production and ...
... perhaps somewhere in the plateau of this reign that the frontier between the ancient and the modern might be found. The true heroism of Justinian's reign was thus not military but material. It was to be found in the production and ...
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... perhaps be expected that I should explain, in a few words, the nature and limits of my general plan. The memorable series of revolutions, which, in the course of about thirteen centuries, gradually undermined, and at length destroyed ...
... perhaps be expected that I should explain, in a few words, the nature and limits of my general plan. The memorable series of revolutions, which, in the course of about thirteen centuries, gradually undermined, and at length destroyed ...
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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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