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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... civil society. What were the forces which built it up, and what were the forces which undermined it? From these considerations flowed the need to investigate political forms, the effects exerted on society by commerce, the nature of ...
... civil society. What were the forces which built it up, and what were the forces which undermined it? From these considerations flowed the need to investigate political forms, the effects exerted on society by commerce, the nature of ...
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... civil order which might otherwise have been lost in the gulf between the ancient and the modern worlds. Like barbarian leaders such as Attila, those respectable Catholic bishops were both wiser than they knew, and wiser than, in all ...
... civil order which might otherwise have been lost in the gulf between the ancient and the modern worlds. Like barbarian leaders such as Attila, those respectable Catholic bishops were both wiser than they knew, and wiser than, in all ...
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... civil honours and advantages they were exalted, by just degrees, to an equality with their conquerors. [Universal spirit of toleration.] I. The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded ...
... civil honours and advantages they were exalted, by just degrees, to an equality with their conquerors. [Universal spirit of toleration.] I. The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded ...
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... civil government. They encouraged the public festivals which humanize the manners of the people. They managed the arts of divination, as a convenient instrument of policy; and they respected as the firmest bond of society, the useful ...
... civil government. They encouraged the public festivals which humanize the manners of the people. They managed the arts of divination, as a convenient instrument of policy; and they respected as the firmest bond of society, the useful ...
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... civil, and others of a military nature. In their manners and internal policy, the colonies formed a perfect representation of their great parent; and as they were soon endeared to the natives by the ties of friendship and alliance, they ...
... civil, and others of a military nature. In their manners and internal policy, the colonies formed a perfect representation of their great parent; and as they were soon endeared to the natives by the ties of friendship and alliance, they ...
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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 - 1827 |
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1914 |
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