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... already voluminous work , and added innumerable notes to the many supplied by the author . To review with care the chapters , dedicated by Gibbon to the history of the establishment of Chris- tianity , was my first object and principal ...
... already voluminous work , and added innumerable notes to the many supplied by the author . To review with care the chapters , dedicated by Gibbon to the history of the establishment of Chris- tianity , was my first object and principal ...
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... already , as we see , shaken his confidence in both . His experience of argu- ments , first assented to with so perfect a conviction of their soundness , and then rejected , necessarily disposed him to question the validity even of ...
... already , as we see , shaken his confidence in both . His experience of argu- ments , first assented to with so perfect a conviction of their soundness , and then rejected , necessarily disposed him to question the validity even of ...
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... already celebrated for her attainments and her beauty . His love was that of an honourable young man for a virtuous female . Never probably having experienced , in after years , any return of such emotions , he congratulated himself ...
... already celebrated for her attainments and her beauty . His love was that of an honourable young man for a virtuous female . Never probably having experienced , in after years , any return of such emotions , he congratulated himself ...
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... already observed , obtained a seat in parliament . To express his thoughts in the most appropriate form was always a difficulty , which unfitted him for public speaking ; and the consciousness of this defect , together with his ...
... already observed , obtained a seat in parliament . To express his thoughts in the most appropriate form was always a difficulty , which unfitted him for public speaking ; and the consciousness of this defect , together with his ...
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... already employed on the events of four centuries , may , perhaps , be alarmed at the long prospect of nine hundred years . But it is not my intention to expatiate with the same minuteness on the whole series of the Byzantine history ...
... already employed on the events of four centuries , may , perhaps , be alarmed at the long prospect of nine hundred years . But it is not my intention to expatiate with the same minuteness on the whole series of the Byzantine history ...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1853 |
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