The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Том 1Harper, 1905 |
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... never be excel- led . " But this very excellence - the fact that a new History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is never likely to supersede Gibbon's immortal work - renders it the more necessary that the successive editions ...
... never be excel- led . " But this very excellence - the fact that a new History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is never likely to supersede Gibbon's immortal work - renders it the more necessary that the successive editions ...
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... A considerable part of the quotations ( some of which in the Museum or the Bodleian ; and he has never found any bookseller in London who has seen it . the later editions had fallen into great confusion ) have PREFACE BY DEAN MILMAN . 23.
... A considerable part of the quotations ( some of which in the Museum or the Bodleian ; and he has never found any bookseller in London who has seen it . the later editions had fallen into great confusion ) have PREFACE BY DEAN MILMAN . 23.
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... never be promiscu- ously enjoyed ; but the longest series of peasants and mechan- ics would not afford much gratification to the pride of their descendant . We wish to discover our ancestors , but we wish . to discover them possessed of ...
... never be promiscu- ously enjoyed ; but the longest series of peasants and mechan- ics would not afford much gratification to the pride of their descendant . We wish to discover our ancestors , but we wish . to discover them possessed of ...
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... never languid . An English text is perpetually interspersed with Latin sen- tences in prose and verse ; but in his own poetry he claims an exemption from the laws of prosody . Amidst a profusion of genealogical knowledge , my kinsman ...
... never languid . An English text is perpetually interspersed with Latin sen- tences in prose and verse ; but in his own poetry he claims an exemption from the laws of prosody . Amidst a profusion of genealogical knowledge , my kinsman ...
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... never conversed with a man who more clearly understood the commerce and finances of England . In the year 1716 he was elected one of the di- rectors of the South Sea Company ; and his books exhibited the proof that , before his ...
... never conversed with a man who more clearly understood the commerce and finances of England . In the year 1716 he was elected one of the di- rectors of the South Sea Company ; and his books exhibited the proof that , before his ...
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