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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... labour of ten years' (A, pp. 311-12). But its praise was laced with the warning tones of bitter experience: When I heard of your undertaking (which was some time ago) I own that I was a little curious to see how you would extricate ...
... labour of ten years' (A, pp. 311-12). But its praise was laced with the warning tones of bitter experience: When I heard of your undertaking (which was some time ago) I own that I was a little curious to see how you would extricate ...
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... labour and luxury, which are more durable than the term of human life, were accumulated by the care of successive generations. Tradition preserved, and experience simplified, the humble practice of the arts: society was enriched by the ...
... labour and luxury, which are more durable than the term of human life, were accumulated by the care of successive generations. Tradition preserved, and experience simplified, the humble practice of the arts: society was enriched by the ...
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... labour and the facility of exchange' shows a debt to the writings of another of his friends, Adam Smith. It seems, then, that Gibbon was applying the thought of the Scottish Enlightenment to the phenomenon of Roman decline, with the ...
... labour and the facility of exchange' shows a debt to the writings of another of his friends, Adam Smith. It seems, then, that Gibbon was applying the thought of the Scottish Enlightenment to the phenomenon of Roman decline, with the ...
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... labour; and the first months of my liberty will be occupied and amused in the excursions of curiosity and taste. By such temptations, I have been sometimes seduced from the rigid duty even of a pleasing and voluntary task: but my time ...
... labour; and the first months of my liberty will be occupied and amused in the excursions of curiosity and taste. By such temptations, I have been sometimes seduced from the rigid duty even of a pleasing and voluntary task: but my time ...
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... expence and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield.
... expence and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield.
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CHAPTERS VIIIXIV | |
CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
CHAPTERS XXVXXVII | |
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