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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... lively and ingenious scholar , while he resided at Lausanne as preceptor to the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick . On his return to his proper station of Librarian to the Ducal Library of Wolfenbuttel , he acciden- tally found amongst ...
... lively and ingenious scholar , while he resided at Lausanne as preceptor to the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick . On his return to his proper station of Librarian to the Ducal Library of Wolfenbuttel , he acciden- tally found amongst ...
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... lively fancy or profound reflection ; and even in his own country , at the end of a few years , his name and writings are almost obliterated . But his philoso- phy had been formed in the school of Locke , his divinity in that of ...
... lively fancy or profound reflection ; and even in his own country , at the end of a few years , his name and writings are almost obliterated . But his philoso- phy had been formed in the school of Locke , his divinity in that of ...
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... lively descriptions of satire , was divided between two parties , the hunters and their game.17 Yet , while so many unjust and extravagant wills were every day dictated by cunning and subscribed by folly , a few were the result of ...
... lively descriptions of satire , was divided between two parties , the hunters and their game.17 Yet , while so many unjust and extravagant wills were every day dictated by cunning and subscribed by folly , a few were the result of ...
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MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS | 43 |
LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH OF GIBBON | 206 |
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