The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Том 1Harper, 1905 |
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... confine his remarks to the correction of the positive errors of Gibbon , and to giving such additional information as the progress of our knowledge requires . He conceives it to be the duty of an editor , in annotating a work like the ...
... confine his remarks to the correction of the positive errors of Gibbon , and to giving such additional information as the progress of our knowledge requires . He conceives it to be the duty of an editor , in annotating a work like the ...
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... confined . Except Herodotus , the great historians of Greece - we exclude the more mod- ern compilers , like Diodorus Siculus - limited themselves to a single period , or at least to the contracted sphere of Gre- cian affairs . As far ...
... confined . Except Herodotus , the great historians of Greece - we exclude the more mod- ern compilers , like Diodorus Siculus - limited themselves to a single period , or at least to the contracted sphere of Gre- cian affairs . As far ...
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... confined , in Italy , to the walls of the city — yet it is still the memory , the shade of the Roman greatness , which extends over the wide sphere into which the historian ex- pands his later narrative ; the whole blends into the unity ...
... confined , in Italy , to the walls of the city — yet it is still the memory , the shade of the Roman greatness , which extends over the wide sphere into which the historian ex- pands his later narrative ; the whole blends into the unity ...
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... confined within reasonable limits , of unan- swerable force becomes more feeble and disputable in pro- portion as it recedes from the birthplace , as it were , of the religion . The farther Christianity advanced , the more causes ...
... confined within reasonable limits , of unan- swerable force becomes more feeble and disputable in pro- portion as it recedes from the birthplace , as it were , of the religion . The farther Christianity advanced , the more causes ...
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... confined us . Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual ; but we step forward beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy will suggest ; and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth , by ...
... confined us . Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual ; but we step forward beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy will suggest ; and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth , by ...
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