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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... secure. It had therefore pleased him that both supporters of the royal prerogative and Whigs of radical temper had perceived a reflection of their own, widely divergent, political beliefs in the first volume of The Decline and Fall. But ...
... secure. It had therefore pleased him that both supporters of the royal prerogative and Whigs of radical temper had perceived a reflection of their own, widely divergent, political beliefs in the first volume of The Decline and Fall. But ...
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... secure every concession, which the safety or the dignity of Rome might require from the most formidable barbarians. Instead of exposing his person and his legions to the arrows of the Parthians, he obtained, by an honourable treaty, the ...
... secure every concession, which the safety or the dignity of Rome might require from the most formidable barbarians. Instead of exposing his person and his legions to the arrows of the Parthians, he obtained, by an honourable treaty, the ...
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... insist on being allowed to restore the more peaceful and secure provinces, to the mild administration of the civil magistrate. In the division of the provinces, Augustus provided for his own power, and for the dignity of.
... insist on being allowed to restore the more peaceful and secure provinces, to the mild administration of the civil magistrate. In the division of the provinces, Augustus provided for his own power, and for the dignity of.
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... secure his person from the dagger of a determined republican; and the Romans, who revered the memory of Brutus,27 would applaud the imitation of his virtue. Cæsar had provoked his fate, as much by the ostentation of his power, as by his ...
... secure his person from the dagger of a determined republican; and the Romans, who revered the memory of Brutus,27 would applaud the imitation of his virtue. Cæsar had provoked his fate, as much by the ostentation of his power, as by his ...
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... secure refuge, a new fortune adequate to his merit, the freedom of complaint, and perhaps the means of revenge. But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and when that empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became ...
... secure refuge, a new fortune adequate to his merit, the freedom of complaint, and perhaps the means of revenge. But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and when that empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became ...
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CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
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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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