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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... reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest' (DF, iii. 142). However much Gibbon may have admired the artistic and cultural achievement of Rome, therefore, he ...
... reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest' (DF, iii. 142). However much Gibbon may have admired the artistic and cultural achievement of Rome, therefore, he ...
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... reason and piety. They have left us the most sublime proofs of the existence and perfections of the first cause; but, as it was impossible for them to conceive the creation of matter, the workman in the Stoic philosophy was not ...
... reason and piety. They have left us the most sublime proofs of the existence and perfections of the first cause; but, as it was impossible for them to conceive the creation of matter, the workman in the Stoic philosophy was not ...
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... reason and eloquence; but the satire of Lucian was a much more adequate, as well as more efficacious weapon. We may be well assured, that a writer, conversant with the world, would never have ventured to expose the gods of his country ...
... reason and eloquence; but the satire of Lucian was a much more adequate, as well as more efficacious weapon. We may be well assured, that a writer, conversant with the world, would never have ventured to expose the gods of his country ...
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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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