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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... ancient world to the modern. Gibbon devotes chapter XXVIII to two almost simultaneous developments. The end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth had seen both the destruction of paganism, and the introduction of the ...
... ancient world to the modern. Gibbon devotes chapter XXVIII to two almost simultaneous developments. The end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth had seen both the destruction of paganism, and the introduction of the ...
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... ancient and the modern worlds. Like barbarian leaders such as Attila, those respectable Catholic bishops were both wiser than they knew, and wiser than, in all probability, they wished to be. It should be already clear, then, that when ...
... ancient and the modern worlds. Like barbarian leaders such as Attila, those respectable Catholic bishops were both wiser than they knew, and wiser than, in all probability, they wished to be. It should be already clear, then, that when ...
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... ancient Troy to the Egyptian Thebes. Abraham had been relieved by the well-known plenty of Egypt; the same country, a small and populous tract, was still capable of exporting, each year, two hundred and sixty thousand quarters of wheat ...
... ancient Troy to the Egyptian Thebes. Abraham had been relieved by the well-known plenty of Egypt; the same country, a small and populous tract, was still capable of exporting, each year, two hundred and sixty thousand quarters of wheat ...
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... ancient and the modern might be found. The true heroism of Justinian's reign was thus not military but material. It was to be found in the production and distribution of goods. And when eighteenth-century writers reviled and despised ...
... ancient and the modern might be found. The true heroism of Justinian's reign was thus not military but material. It was to be found in the production and distribution of goods. And when eighteenth-century writers reviled and despised ...
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... ancient Romans, had been long since forgotten. The writer who should undertake to relate the events of this period, would find himself obliged to enter into the general history of the Crusades, as far as they contributed to the ruin of ...
... ancient Romans, had been long since forgotten. The writer who should undertake to relate the events of this period, would find himself obliged to enter into the general history of the Crusades, as far as they contributed to the ruin of ...
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CHAPTERS VIIIXIV | |
CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
CHAPTERS XXVXXVII | |
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