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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... victory was complete. Horace Walpole warmed to its lethal ironies when he praised it as 'the feathered arrow of Cupid, that is more formidable than the club of Hercules' (MW, ii. 159). The success of The Decline and Fall smoothed ...
... victory was complete. Horace Walpole warmed to its lethal ironies when he praised it as 'the feathered arrow of Cupid, that is more formidable than the club of Hercules' (MW, ii. 159). The success of The Decline and Fall smoothed ...
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... victory over the barbaric character of his subjects: The western world was oppressed by the Goths and Vandals, who fled before the Huns; but the atchievements of the Huns themselves were not adequate to their power and prosperity. Their ...
... victory over the barbaric character of his subjects: The western world was oppressed by the Goths and Vandals, who fled before the Huns; but the atchievements of the Huns themselves were not adequate to their power and prosperity. Their ...
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... victory of Actium, had seen the superiority of his own light frigates (they were called Liburnians) over the lofty but unwieldy castles of his rival.67 Of these Liburnians he composed the two fleets of Ravenna and Misenum, destined to ...
... victory of Actium, had seen the superiority of his own light frigates (they were called Liburnians) over the lofty but unwieldy castles of his rival.67 Of these Liburnians he composed the two fleets of Ravenna and Misenum, destined to ...
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... 30 confirmed by history and experience. The natives of Italy, allured by pleasure or by interest, hastened to enjoy the advantages of victory; and we may remark, that, about forty years after the reduction of Asia, eighty thousand Romans.
... 30 confirmed by history and experience. The natives of Italy, allured by pleasure or by interest, hastened to enjoy the advantages of victory; and we may remark, that, about forty years after the reduction of Asia, eighty thousand Romans.
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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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