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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... fortune , was lineally descended from Cimon and Miltiades , Theseus and Cecrops , acus and Jupiter . But the posterity of so many gods and heroes was fall- en into the most abject state . His grandfather had suffered by the hands of ...
... fortune , was lineally descended from Cimon and Miltiades , Theseus and Cecrops , acus and Jupiter . But the posterity of so many gods and heroes was fall- en into the most abject state . His grandfather had suffered by the hands of ...
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... fortune to a rank in the army , in which a single crime would enable him to wrest the sceptre of the world from his ... fortunes of Thrace , to celebrate , with military games , the birth- day of his younger son , Geta . The country ...
... fortune to a rank in the army , in which a single crime would enable him to wrest the sceptre of the world from his ... fortunes of Thrace , to celebrate , with military games , the birth- day of his younger son , Geta . The country ...
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... fortunes of his family by leaving in the hands of his 80 Nemesian . Cynegeticon , v . 69. He was a contemporary , but a poet . 81 Cancellarius . This word , so humble in its origin , has by a singular fortune risen into the title of the ...
... fortunes of his family by leaving in the hands of his 80 Nemesian . Cynegeticon , v . 69. He was a contemporary , but a poet . 81 Cancellarius . This word , so humble in its origin , has by a singular fortune risen into the title of the ...
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MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS | 43 |
LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH OF GIBBON | 206 |
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