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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... fortune was overwhelmed in the shipwreck of the year twenty, and the labours of thirty years were blasted in a single day' (A, p. 11). A fortune of over £ 100,000 was reduced to £10,000. Yet he was unconquered by adversity: he rebuilt ...
... fortune was overwhelmed in the shipwreck of the year twenty, and the labours of thirty years were blasted in a single day' (A, p. 11). A fortune of over £ 100,000 was reduced to £10,000. Yet he was unconquered by adversity: he rebuilt ...
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... Fortune. This science is the science of causes and effects' (MW, iv. 63). But what kind of causes did the philosophic historian perceive? In the first place, philosophic historiography was secular in its focus. Human agency accomplished ...
... Fortune. This science is the science of causes and effects' (MW, iv. 63). But what kind of causes did the philosophic historian perceive? In the first place, philosophic historiography was secular in its focus. Human agency accomplished ...
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... fortune.3 On the death of that emperor, his testament was publicly read in the senate. He bequeathed, as a valuable legacy to his successors, the advice of confining the empire within those limits which Nature seemed to have placed as ...
... fortune.3 On the death of that emperor, his testament was publicly read in the senate. He bequeathed, as a valuable legacy to his successors, the advice of confining the empire within those limits which Nature seemed to have placed as ...
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... fortune, till, by the confession of his enemies, he had exhausted every resource both of valour and policy.16 This memorable war, with a very short suspension of hostilities, lasted five years; and as the emperor could exert, without ...
... fortune, till, by the confession of his enemies, he had exhausted every resource both of valour and policy.16 This memorable war, with a very short suspension of hostilities, lasted five years; and as the emperor could exert, without ...
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... fortune, and hastened the ruin, of Athens and Sparta. The aspiring genius of Rome sacrificed vanity to ambition, and deemed it more prudent, as well as honourable, to adopt virtue and merit for her own wheresoever they were found, among ...
... fortune, and hastened the ruin, of Athens and Sparta. The aspiring genius of Rome sacrificed vanity to ambition, and deemed it more prudent, as well as honourable, to adopt virtue and merit for her own wheresoever they were found, among ...
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CHAPTERS VIIIXIV | |
CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
CHAPTERS XXVXXVII | |
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