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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... philosophic weapons' (A, p. 147). Secondly, when Voltaire took up residence in Lausanne, Gibbon (who was now moving in polite Vaudois society) was occasionally invited to the theatrical performances he gave and the supper parties which ...
... philosophic weapons' (A, p. 147). Secondly, when Voltaire took up residence in Lausanne, Gibbon (who was now moving in polite Vaudois society) was occasionally invited to the theatrical performances he gave and the supper parties which ...
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... philosophic salon of the francophile Lady Hervey, and sought relaxation in regular theatregoing. In Hampshire his life was less fashionable but more profitable. For country pursuits he had little relish, although his letters record that ...
... philosophic salon of the francophile Lady Hervey, and sought relaxation in regular theatregoing. In Hampshire his life was less fashionable but more profitable. For country pursuits he had little relish, although his letters record that ...
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... philosophic history. Other tantalizing hints about Gibbon's scholarly projects in the later 1760s point forwards to The Decline and Fall. In particular there was apparently 'an ample dissertation on the miraculous darkness of the ...
... philosophic history. Other tantalizing hints about Gibbon's scholarly projects in the later 1760s point forwards to The Decline and Fall. In particular there was apparently 'an ample dissertation on the miraculous darkness of the ...
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... philosophic' history, and what did it mean to be a 'philosophic' 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 ...
... philosophic' history, and what did it mean to be a 'philosophic' 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 ...
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... philosophic histories those actors would tend to emerge as deluded and even defeated figures: the instruments of a past they imagined they were directing, the inhabitants of a realm of illusion blinded to the causes ordering their own ...
... philosophic histories those actors would tend to emerge as deluded and even defeated figures: the instruments of a past they imagined they were directing, the inhabitants of a realm of illusion blinded to the causes ordering their own ...
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CHAPTERS VIIIXIV | |
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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