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... period which it embraces . Wherever Gibbon is enabled to consult authors of acknowledged ability and good faith , their value to us is enhanced by the graces of his own composition , and by the skilful arrangement or condensation of his ...
... period which it embraces . Wherever Gibbon is enabled to consult authors of acknowledged ability and good faith , their value to us is enhanced by the graces of his own composition , and by the skilful arrangement or condensation of his ...
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... period it appears that he shewed a greater wish to be received as a man of fashion than merely as one of literary reputation . He gained the regard and confidence of his friends ; his attachment to them was sincere ; he never left any ...
... period it appears that he shewed a greater wish to be received as a man of fashion than merely as one of literary reputation . He gained the regard and confidence of his friends ; his attachment to them was sincere ; he never left any ...
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... periods have had their own many and able historians . The notes which I have added to the remaining volumes are , therefore , few and short . What I have done may perhaps be deemed super- fluous , yet have I strictly refrained from ...
... periods have had their own many and able historians . The notes which I have added to the remaining volumes are , therefore , few and short . What I have done may perhaps be deemed super- fluous , yet have I strictly refrained from ...
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... period of life , by checking the sallies of imagination , it facilitates an application to study , more acceptable always to the weak than to the alert . But young Gibbon's ill- health afforded to the indolence of his father and the ...
... period of life , by checking the sallies of imagination , it facilitates an application to study , more acceptable always to the weak than to the alert . But young Gibbon's ill- health afforded to the indolence of his father and the ...
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... period of life , would have been indications of a frivolous and unreflecting mind ; but in him they were only evidences of an excitable imagination , and eager desire for truth . But he had been allowed , too early perhaps , to divest ...
... period of life , would have been indications of a frivolous and unreflecting mind ; but in him they were only evidences of an excitable imagination , and eager desire for truth . But he had been allowed , too early perhaps , to divest ...
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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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