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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... language and empire of Rome : and this plan , in the last twenty - seven months of my residence at Lausanne ( January , 1756 - April , 1758 ) , I nearly accomplished . Nor was this review , however rapid , either hasty or superfi cial ...
... language and empire of Rome : and this plan , in the last twenty - seven months of my residence at Lausanne ( January , 1756 - April , 1758 ) , I nearly accomplished . Nor was this review , however rapid , either hasty or superfi cial ...
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... language in which it is written . Why do ' you compose in French , and carry fagots into the wood , as Horace says with re- gard to Romans who wrote in Greek ? I grant that you have a like motive to those Romans , and adopt a language ...
... language in which it is written . Why do ' you compose in French , and carry fagots into the wood , as Horace says with re- gard to Romans who wrote in Greek ? I grant that you have a like motive to those Romans , and adopt a language ...
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... language of Virgil and Cicero , though with some inev- itable mixture of corruption , was so universally adopted in Africa , Spain , Gaul , Britain , and Pannonia , that the faint traces of the Punic or Celtic idioms were preserved only ...
... language of Virgil and Cicero , though with some inev- itable mixture of corruption , was so universally adopted in Africa , Spain , Gaul , Britain , and Pannonia , that the faint traces of the Punic or Celtic idioms were preserved only ...
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MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS | 43 |
LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH OF GIBBON | 206 |
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