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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... interest' and accordingly, notwithstanding his Jacobite inclinations, as an army contractor the Continental campaigns of William III had made him a wealthy man (A, p. 10). In 1716 he had become a director of the South Sea Company, and ...
... interest' and accordingly, notwithstanding his Jacobite inclinations, as an army contractor the Continental campaigns of William III had made him a wealthy man (A, p. 10). In 1716 he had become a director of the South Sea Company, and ...
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... interests, he recalls being particularly struck by the Abbey of Einsidlen, a palace 'erected by the potent magic of Religion' (A, p. 145). Early in his residence at Lausanne, Gibbon had begun the first of the two important friendships ...
... interests, he recalls being particularly struck by the Abbey of Einsidlen, a palace 'erected by the potent magic of Religion' (A, p. 145). Early in his residence at Lausanne, Gibbon had begun the first of the two important friendships ...
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... interest in La Grotte, and his financial situation was now more healthy thanks to sales of property in England, so his material circumstances were if anything improved. But Gibbon was profoundly shaken by the death of his friend, and ...
... interest in La Grotte, and his financial situation was now more healthy thanks to sales of property in England, so his material circumstances were if anything improved. But Gibbon was profoundly shaken by the death of his friend, and ...
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... interest' (DF, iii. 142). However much Gibbon may have admired the artistic and cultural achievement of Rome, therefore, he was no admirer of empire as a political system. In this he stands out from his immediate predecessors and near ...
... interest' (DF, iii. 142). However much Gibbon may have admired the artistic and cultural achievement of Rome, therefore, he was no admirer of empire as a political system. In this he stands out from his immediate predecessors and near ...
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... interest, because it indicates very clearly Gibbon's understanding of the cardinal position occupied by Byzantium in the emergence of the modern world from the societies of antiquity. Where we might have expected the hostility of a ...
... interest, because it indicates very clearly Gibbon's understanding of the cardinal position occupied by Byzantium in the emergence of the modern world from the societies of antiquity. Where we might have expected the hostility of a ...
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CHAPTERS VIIIXIV | |
CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
CHAPTERS XXVXXVII | |
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