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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... strength of his historical instincts. Arnaldo Momigliano, in what may be the most influential single piece of scholarship on Gibbon written in the twentieth century, argues that Gibbon's distinctive contribution to historical method was ...
... strength of his historical instincts. Arnaldo Momigliano, in what may be the most influential single piece of scholarship on Gibbon written in the twentieth century, argues that Gibbon's distinctive contribution to historical method was ...
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... strength and energy in the pursuit of luxury, we have instead what is almost a rhapsody on the manifold benefits of commerce. The civilizing effects of trade in strengthening, rather than weakening, the ties which bind society together ...
... strength and energy in the pursuit of luxury, we have instead what is almost a rhapsody on the manifold benefits of commerce. The civilizing effects of trade in strengthening, rather than weakening, the ties which bind society together ...
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... strength and maturity, began to verge towards its decline; and will extend to the subversion of the Western Empire, by the barbarians of Germany and Scythia, the rude ancestors of the most polished nations of modern Europe. This ...
... strength and maturity, began to verge towards its decline; and will extend to the subversion of the Western Empire, by the barbarians of Germany and Scythia, the rude ancestors of the most polished nations of modern Europe. This ...
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... strength and fierceness of barbarians, they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.15 Decebalus, the Dacian king, approved himself a rival not unworthy of ...
... strength and fierceness of barbarians, they added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.15 Decebalus, the Dacian king, approved himself a rival not unworthy of ...
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... while justice regulated their they announced to the nations on their confines, that they were as little disposed to endure, as to offer an injury. The military strength, which it had been sufficient for Hadrian and the elder.
... while justice regulated their they announced to the nations on their confines, that they were as little disposed to endure, as to offer an injury. The military strength, which it had been sufficient for Hadrian and the elder.
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CHAPTER XV | |
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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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