The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireStrelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 6. nov. 2018 This huge and fundamental historical work covers the history of Western civilization from the beginning of the Roman Empire’s break, when the Nerva–Antonine dynasty came to power, till the end of the 16th century with the descriptions of Arab and Mongol conquests, so a period from 98 to 1590. The work contained six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776, volumes II and III were published in 1781, volumes IV, V, and VI in 1788–1789. Due to its comparative objectivity and extensive usage of primary sources, unusual for the time, the author’s methodology is considered to become an example for further historians, and Gibbon, thanks to this work, is called the first “contemporary historian of Ancient Rome”. |
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... success. Paley, with his intuitive sagacity, saw through the difficulty of answering Gibbon by the ordinary arts of ... successes of barbarous energy and brute force call forth all the consummate skill of composition; while the moral ...
... success of trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms. He descended the River Tigris in triumph, from the mountains of Armenia to the Persian Gulf. He ...
... success; and if we except a few slight hostilities, that served to exercise the legions of the frontier, the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius offer the fair prospect of universal peace,[33] the Roman name was revered among the most ...
... tract of sea and land, were apprised of his success, or even of his election. During the whole expedition, he scarcely allowed himself any moments for sleep or food; marching on foot, and in complete armor, at the head.
... successful emperor,[429] and he boasted, with a just pride, that, having received the empire oppressed with foreign and ... success, enervated by luxury, and raised above the level of subjects by their dangerous privileges,[432]they soon ...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 2 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1840 |