The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Band 1Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1994 - 3360 Seiten A new critical edition, complete & unmodernized. Contains variants, & comments & notes by Gibbon, plus his famous Vindication. Also includes description of the development of the work within the framework of Gibbon's life & the culture of the era. |
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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 to the university ; his learning was of the last , rather than of the present age ; his temper was indolent ; his faculties , which were not of the first - rate , had been relaxed by the climate , and he was satis- fied , like ...
... confined to the university ; his learning was of the last , rather than of the present age ; his temper was indolent ; his faculties , which were not of the first - rate , had been relaxed by the climate , and he was satis- fied , like ...
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... confined to the narrow limits of our language and our island . I must embrace a safer and more extensive theme . a " There is one which I should prefer to all others , The His- tory of the Liberty of the Swiss , of that independence ...
... confined to the narrow limits of our language and our island . I must embrace a safer and more extensive theme . a " There is one which I should prefer to all others , The His- tory of the Liberty of the Swiss , of that independence ...
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MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS | 43 |
LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH OF GIBBON | 206 |
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