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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... philosophers are not always historians, it were, at any rate, to be wished that historians were always philosophers' (MW, iv. 66: my translation). For Gibbon, the philosophic historian was never a mere chronicler, content to trace the ...
... philosophers are not always historians, it were, at any rate, to be wished that historians were always philosophers' (MW, iv. 66: my translation). For Gibbon, the philosophic historian was never a mere chronicler, content to trace the ...
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... philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. [Of the people.] The superstition of the people was not embittered by any ...
... philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. [Of the people.] The superstition of the people was not embittered by any ...
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... philosophers.] The philosophers of Greece deduced their morals from the nature of man, rather than from that of God. They meditated, however, on the Divine Nature, as a very curious and important speculation; and in the profound inquiry ...
... philosophers.] The philosophers of Greece deduced their morals from the nature of man, rather than from that of God. They meditated, however, on the Divine Nature, as a very curious and important speculation; and in the profound inquiry ...
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... philosopher should accept, as divine truths, the idle tales of the poets, and the incoherent traditions of antiquity ... philosophers of antiquity asserted the independent dignity of reason; but they resigned their actions to the ...
... philosopher should accept, as divine truths, the idle tales of the poets, and the incoherent traditions of antiquity ... philosophers of antiquity asserted the independent dignity of reason; but they resigned their actions to the ...
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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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