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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... virtue . Cæsar had provoked his fate as much by the osten- tation of his power as by his power itself . The consul or the tribune might have reigned in peace . The title of king had armed the Romans against his life . Augustus was ...
... virtue . Cæsar had provoked his fate as much by the osten- tation of his power as by his power itself . The consul or the tribune might have reigned in peace . The title of king had armed the Romans against his life . Augustus was ...
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... virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind . " It was the well - earned harvest of many a learned conference , of many a patient lect- Of Marcus . ure , and many a midnight lucubration . At the age of ...
... virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind . " It was the well - earned harvest of many a learned conference , of many a patient lect- Of Marcus . ure , and many a midnight lucubration . At the age of ...
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... virtue , recommended Albinus to the confidence and good opinion of Marcus ; and his preserv- ing with the son the ... virtues and all the vices that enter into the human composition , and bestows them on the same ob- ject . Such , indeed ...
... virtue , recommended Albinus to the confidence and good opinion of Marcus ; and his preserv- ing with the son the ... virtues and all the vices that enter into the human composition , and bestows them on the same ob- ject . Such , indeed ...
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MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGS | 43 |
LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH OF GIBBON | 206 |
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