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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... conquest. Before his departure, the prudent general had provided for security as well as for dominion. He had observed, that the island is almost divided into two unequal parts by the opposite gulfs, or, as they are now called, the ...
... conquest. Before his departure, the prudent general had provided for security as well as for dominion. He had observed, that the island is almost divided into two unequal parts by the opposite gulfs, or, as they are now called, the ...
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... conquest, was actuated only by the love of order and justice. During a long period of forty-three years their virtuous labours were crowned with success; and if we except a few slight hostilities that served to exercise the legions of ...
... conquest, was actuated only by the love of order and justice. During a long period of forty-three years their virtuous labours were crowned with success; and if we except a few slight hostilities that served to exercise the legions of ...
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... conquest, war was gradually improved into an art, and degraded into a trade.30 The legions themselves, even at the time when they were recruited in the most distant provinces, were supposed to consist of Roman citizens. That distinction ...
... conquest, war was gradually improved into an art, and degraded into a trade.30 The legions themselves, even at the time when they were recruited in the most distant provinces, were supposed to consist of Roman citizens. That distinction ...
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... conquests of his father, he introduced a division of Gaul equally adapted to the progress of the legions, to the course of ... conquest of Britain, and to fix the boundary of the Roman province in this island. It comprehended all England ...
... conquests of his father, he introduced a division of Gaul equally adapted to the progress of the legions, to the course of ... conquest of Britain, and to fix the boundary of the Roman province in this island. It comprehended all England ...
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... conquest, the country which is now called Lombardy, was not considered as a part of Italy. It had been occupied by a powerful colony of Gauls, who settling themselves along the banks of the Po, from Piedmont to Romagna, carried their ...
... conquest, the country which is now called Lombardy, was not considered as a part of Italy. It had been occupied by a powerful colony of Gauls, who settling themselves along the banks of the Po, from Piedmont to Romagna, carried their ...
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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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