The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: t. 2, t. 3, t. 4, t. 5, t. 6, t. 7Henry G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... say , inspired me with some confidence in myself . It still remains for me to acknowledge how much I owe to the advice of one , who is as generally enlightened as he is versed in those particular researches in which I have been engaged ...
... say , inspired me with some confidence in myself . It still remains for me to acknowledge how much I owe to the advice of one , who is as generally enlightened as he is versed in those particular researches in which I have been engaged ...
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... says , his opinions were subor- dinate to his interest , for he clothed the troops of King William in Flanders , while he would rather have trafficked with King James , " though not , perhaps , " adds the historian , " at a cheaper rate ...
... says , his opinions were subor- dinate to his interest , for he clothed the troops of King William in Flanders , while he would rather have trafficked with King James , " though not , perhaps , " adds the historian , " at a cheaper rate ...
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... says , for such a youth , is also curious , inasmuch as it pre - indicates the spirit that was afterwards to preside over the composition of the great work on which his reputation reposes . It is thus stated in his Memoirs : " In his ...
... says , for such a youth , is also curious , inasmuch as it pre - indicates the spirit that was afterwards to preside over the composition of the great work on which his reputation reposes . It is thus stated in his Memoirs : " In his ...
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... say before he spoke , had not admitted , that even " before writing a note or a letter , he com- pletely arranged in ... says : " Gibbon com- posed while walking in his room , and never penned a sentence till he had perfectly constructed ...
... say before he spoke , had not admitted , that even " before writing a note or a letter , he com- pletely arranged in ... says : " Gibbon com- posed while walking in his room , and never penned a sentence till he had perfectly constructed ...
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... says , " on the 15th of October , 1764 , as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol , while the bare footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter , that the idea 66 of writing the Decline and Fall of the city THE ...
... says , " on the 15th of October , 1764 , as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol , while the bare footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter , that the idea 66 of writing the Decline and Fall of the city THE ...
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