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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... hands of private avarice , to an annual revenue of nearly thirty thousand pounds . Our colleges are supposed to be schools of science , as well as of education ; nor is it unreason- able to expect that a body of literary men , devoted ...
... hands of private avarice , to an annual revenue of nearly thirty thousand pounds . Our colleges are supposed to be schools of science , as well as of education ; nor is it unreason- able to expect that a body of literary men , devoted ...
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... hands of a stranger , uninformed by the scholars and statesmen , and re- mote from the libraries and archives , of ... hand , besides a con- siderable number of notes . Mr. Hume's opinion , expressed in the letter in the last note ...
... hands of a stranger , uninformed by the scholars and statesmen , and re- mote from the libraries and archives , of ... hand , besides a con- siderable number of notes . Mr. Hume's opinion , expressed in the letter in the last note ...
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... hands of a Turkish pasha . The Nile flows down the country above five hundred miles , from the Tropic of Cancer to the Mediterranean , and marks on either side the extent of fertility by the measure of its inundations . Cyrene , situate ...
... hands of a Turkish pasha . The Nile flows down the country above five hundred miles , from the Tropic of Cancer to the Mediterranean , and marks on either side the extent of fertility by the measure of its inundations . Cyrene , situate ...
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