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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... appeared in 1764. Meanwhile, Gibbon served as a captain in the Hampshire Militia until 1763, when he returned to the Continent. It was while he was in Rome in 1764 that he first conceived the work that was eventually to become The ...
... appeared in 1764. Meanwhile, Gibbon served as a captain in the Hampshire Militia until 1763, when he returned to the Continent. It was while he was in Rome in 1764 that he first conceived the work that was eventually to become The ...
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... appeared at a price of one guinea, unbound. The book sold with great rapidity. The first edition of volume one – of which, almost at the last minute, Strahan had presciently ordered the print run to be doubled from five hundred to a ...
... appeared at a price of one guinea, unbound. The book sold with great rapidity. The first edition of volume one – of which, almost at the last minute, Strahan had presciently ordered the print run to be doubled from five hundred to a ...
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... appeared, to which Gibbon did not deign to reply, although in volume two of The Decline and Fall some notes vented his irritation at attacks on his scholarly accuracy. The Vindication was Gibbon's only public engagement with his ...
... appeared, to which Gibbon did not deign to reply, although in volume two of The Decline and Fall some notes vented his irritation at attacks on his scholarly accuracy. The Vindication was Gibbon's only public engagement with his ...
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... appearance was indelibly barbaric: 'the portrait of Attila exhibits the genuine deformity of a modern Calmuck'. But in his deeds he transcended the characteristic limitations of barbarism: 'the fame of an adventurous soldier was ...
... appearance was indelibly barbaric: 'the portrait of Attila exhibits the genuine deformity of a modern Calmuck'. But in his deeds he transcended the characteristic limitations of barbarism: 'the fame of an adventurous soldier was ...
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... 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 modern might be ...
... 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 modern might be ...
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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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