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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... friends. I am fairly entitled to a year of jubilee: next summer and the following winter will rapidly pass away; and experience only can determine whether I shall still prefer the freedom and variety of study to the design and ...
... friends. I am fairly entitled to a year of jubilee: next summer and the following winter will rapidly pass away; and experience only can determine whether I shall still prefer the freedom and variety of study to the design and ...
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... friends, and scrupulously practised all the duties of an ordinary candidate.17 But we may venture to ascribe to his councils, the first measure of the succeeding reign, by which the elections were transferred to the senate.18 The ...
... friends, and scrupulously practised all the duties of an ordinary candidate.17 But we may venture to ascribe to his councils, the first measure of the succeeding reign, by which the elections were transferred to the senate.18 The ...
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... friends of his uncle were in the number of the conspirators. The fidelity of the legions might defend his authority against open rebellion; but their vigilance could not secure his person from the dagger of a determined republican; and ...
... friends of his uncle were in the number of the conspirators. The fidelity of the legions might defend his authority against open rebellion; but their vigilance could not secure his person from the dagger of a determined republican; and ...
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... friends were sacrificed to the first fury of the soldiers. Others were reserved for the more deliberate cruelty of ... friendship of a few who had relieved his poverty, and assisted his rising hopes. But those who had spurned, and those ...
... friends were sacrificed to the first fury of the soldiers. Others were reserved for the more deliberate cruelty of ... friendship of a few who had relieved his poverty, and assisted his rising hopes. But those who had spurned, and those ...
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... friends and relations. Throughout the Roman world a general cry of indignation was heard, imploring vengeance on the common enemy of human kind; and at length, by an act of private oppression, a peaceful and unarmed province was driven ...
... friends and relations. Throughout the Roman world a general cry of indignation was heard, imploring vengeance on the common enemy of human kind; and at length, by an act of private oppression, a peaceful and unarmed province was driven ...
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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 - 1914 |
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