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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... friends David and Lucy Mallet, he decided to entrust Gibbon's education to the feckless and neglectful Reverend Philip Francis. It was clear within two months that the experiment had been a failure, and in response to this ...
... friends David and Lucy Mallet, he decided to entrust Gibbon's education to the feckless and neglectful Reverend Philip Francis. It was clear within two months that the experiment had been a failure, and in response to this ...
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... friend of a local Protestant minister, Francçois-Louis Allamand, with whom he debated Locke's metaphysics: by engaging with Allamand's dissimulated scepticism, Gibbon 'acquired some dexterity in the use of... philosophic weapons' (A, p ...
... friend of a local Protestant minister, Francçois-Louis Allamand, with whom he debated Locke's metaphysics: by engaging with Allamand's dissimulated scepticism, Gibbon 'acquired some dexterity in the use of... philosophic weapons' (A, p ...
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... friends, occupied Gibbon until, on 8 May 1788, the double festival of his fifty-first birthday and the publication ... friend, and lapsed into a depression from which he only gradually emerged, to resume once more the mild pleasures of ...
... friends, occupied Gibbon until, on 8 May 1788, the double festival of his fifty-first birthday and the publication ... friend, and lapsed into a depression from which he only gradually emerged, to resume once more the mild pleasures of ...
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... friends, Adam Smith. It seems, then, that Gibbon was applying the thought of the Scottish Enlightenment to the phenomenon of Roman decline, with the effect that the Eastern empire during Justinian's reign appeared as a nascent ...
... friends, Adam Smith. It seems, then, that Gibbon was applying the thought of the Scottish Enlightenment to the phenomenon of Roman decline, with the effect that the Eastern empire during Justinian's reign appeared as a nascent ...
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... friends; and who, under the pressure of severe infirmity, enjoys the lively vigour of his mind, and the felicity of his incomparable temper. LORD NORTH will permit me to express the feelings of friendship in the language of truth: but ...
... friends; and who, under the pressure of severe infirmity, enjoys the lively vigour of his mind, and the felicity of his incomparable temper. LORD NORTH will permit me to express the feelings of friendship in the language of truth: but ...
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CHAPTERS VIIIXIV | |
CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
CHAPTERS XXVXXVII | |
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