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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... measure' (A, p. 56) and made his second great mistake. He resolved to send his son without further ado to Oxford. Edward Gibbon senior had arranged for his son to proceed to Magdalen College, Oxford, as a Gentleman Commoner, and in ...
... measure' (A, p. 56) and made his second great mistake. He resolved to send his son without further ado to Oxford. Edward Gibbon senior had arranged for his son to proceed to Magdalen College, Oxford, as a Gentleman Commoner, and in ...
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... measure of independence, but was still in fact very much under his father's control. When Gibbon informed his father that while in Lausanne he had fallen in love with the pretty, but penniless, Suzanne Curchod, his father's opposition ...
... measure of independence, but was still in fact very much under his father's control. When Gibbon informed his father that while in Lausanne he had fallen in love with the pretty, but penniless, Suzanne Curchod, his father's opposition ...
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... measure to such a catalogue. A naked list of names and editions would not be satisfactory either to myself or my readers: the characters of the principal Authors of the Roman and Byzantine History, have been occasionally connected with ...
... measure to such a catalogue. A naked list of names and editions would not be satisfactory either to myself or my readers: the characters of the principal Authors of the Roman and Byzantine History, have been occasionally connected with ...
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... measure of his reign. He restored to the Parthians the election of an independent Sovereign, withdrew the Roman garrisons from the provinces of Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Assyria, and, in compliance with the precept of Augustus, once ...
... measure of his reign. He restored to the Parthians the election of an independent Sovereign, withdrew the Roman garrisons from the provinces of Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Assyria, and, in compliance with the precept of Augustus, once ...
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... measure of its inundations. Cyrene, situate towards the west, and along the sea-coast, was first a Greek colony, afterwards a province of Egypt, and is now lost in the desert of Barca. [Africa.] From Cyrene to the ocean, the coast of ...
... measure of its inundations. Cyrene, situate towards the west, and along the sea-coast, was first a Greek colony, afterwards a province of Egypt, and is now lost in the desert of Barca. [Africa.] From Cyrene to the ocean, the coast of ...
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CHAPTERS VIIIXIV | |
CHAPTER XV | |
CHAPTERS XVIXXI | |
CHAPTER XXII | |
CHAPTER XXIII | |
CHAPTER XXIV | |
CHAPTERS XXVXXVII | |
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