The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePenguin UK, 19 черв. 2000 р. - 848 стор. 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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... Justinian that Gibbon turns his attention to the agriculture and manufactures of the Eastern empire, and expatiates in pleasure on the advances in material prosperity which had accompanied what he recognizes had also been years of ...
... Justinian that Gibbon turns his attention to the agriculture and manufactures of the Eastern empire, and expatiates in pleasure on the advances in material prosperity which had accompanied what he recognizes had also been years of ...
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... Justinian was supplied with the manufactures of Sidon, fifteen centuries after they had been celebrated in the poems of Homer. The annual powers of vegetation, instead of being exhausted by two thousand harvests, were renewed and ...
... Justinian was supplied with the manufactures of Sidon, fifteen centuries after they had been celebrated in the poems of Homer. The annual powers of vegetation, instead of being exhausted by two thousand harvests, were renewed and ...
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... Justinian's reign appeared as a nascent commercial society, rather than a political body akin to the societies of the classical period; it was perhaps somewhere in the plateau of this reign that the frontier between the ancient and the ...
... Justinian's reign appeared as a nascent commercial society, rather than a political body akin to the societies of the classical period; it was perhaps somewhere in the plateau of this reign that the frontier between the ancient and the ...
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... about the beginning of the sixth century. II. The second period of the Decline and Fall of Rome, may be supposed to commence with the reign of Justinian, who by his laws, as well as by his victories, restored a transient GIBBON'S PREFACES.
... about the beginning of the sixth century. II. The second period of the Decline and Fall of Rome, may be supposed to commence with the reign of Justinian, who by his laws, as well as by his victories, restored a transient GIBBON'S PREFACES.
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CHAPTERS VIIIXIV | |
CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
CHAPTERS XXVXXVII | |
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