The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Том 1Harper, 1905 |
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... importance of the events . Whoever would justly appreciate the superiority of Gibbon's lucid ar- rangement , should attempt to make his way through the reg- ular but wearisome annals of Tillemont , or even the less pon- derous volumes ...
... importance of the events . Whoever would justly appreciate the superiority of Gibbon's lucid ar- rangement , should attempt to make his way through the reg- ular but wearisome annals of Tillemont , or even the less pon- derous volumes ...
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... important and numer- ous to make me believe that they had been written with extreme negligence ; in others , I was struck with a certain tinge of partiality and prejudice , which imparted to the ex- position of the facts that want of ...
... important and numer- ous to make me believe that they had been written with extreme negligence ; in others , I was struck with a certain tinge of partiality and prejudice , which imparted to the ex- position of the facts that want of ...
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... importance of the reproaches which Gibbon really deserved ; I was struck with the same errors , the same partiality on certain subjects ; but I had been far from doing adequate justice to the immensity of his researches , the variety of ...
... importance of the reproaches which Gibbon really deserved ; I was struck with the same errors , the same partiality on certain subjects ; but I had been far from doing adequate justice to the immensity of his researches , the variety of ...
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... importance —this distribution of light and shade - though perhaps it may occasionally betray him into vague and imperfect statements , is one of the highest excellences of Gibbon's historic manner . It is the more striking when we pass ...
... importance —this distribution of light and shade - though perhaps it may occasionally betray him into vague and imperfect statements , is one of the highest excellences of Gibbon's historic manner . It is the more striking when we pass ...
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... importance of the subject which I have undertaken to treat , since the merit of the choice would serve to render the weakness of the execution still more apparent , and still less excusable . But as I have presumed to lay before the ...
... importance of the subject which I have undertaken to treat , since the merit of the choice would serve to render the weakness of the execution still more apparent , and still less excusable . But as I have presumed to lay before the ...
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