The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1Methuen & Company, 1909 - Byzantine Empire |
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... Greek Empire , " his title rectified any false impressions that such language might cause . On the continuity of the Roman Empire depended the unity of his work . By the emphasis laid on this fact he did the same kind of service to the ...
... Greek Empire , " his title rectified any false impressions that such language might cause . On the continuity of the Roman Empire depended the unity of his work . By the emphasis laid on this fact he did the same kind of service to the ...
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... Greek was imperfect ; he was very far from having of Greek the " scrupulous ear of the well - flogged critic " . He has committed errors of translation , and was capable of writing Gregory of Nazianzen " . But such slips are singularly ...
... Greek was imperfect ; he was very far from having of Greek the " scrupulous ear of the well - flogged critic " . He has committed errors of translation , and was capable of writing Gregory of Nazianzen " . But such slips are singularly ...
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... Greek " . The question is , where did he get it ?? The difficult questions connected with the authorship and compilation of the Historia Augusta have produced a chestful of German pamphlets , but they did not trouble Gibbon . The ...
... Greek " . The question is , where did he get it ?? The difficult questions connected with the authorship and compilation of the Historia Augusta have produced a chestful of German pamphlets , but they did not trouble Gibbon . The ...
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... Greek his- torians are also being re - edited . The Bonn edition of the " Byzantine Writers , " issued under the auspices of Niebuhr and Bekker in the early part of the nineteenth century , was the most lamentably feeble production ever ...
... Greek his- torians are also being re - edited . The Bonn edition of the " Byzantine Writers , " issued under the auspices of Niebuhr and Bekker in the early part of the nineteenth century , was the most lamentably feeble production ever ...
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... Greek history with great fulness , the material has been largely increased by the researches of Hopf . Having illustrated by examples the advantages open to an historian of the present day , which were not open to Gibbon , for dealing ...
... Greek history with great fulness , the material has been largely increased by the researches of Hopf . Having illustrated by examples the advantages open to an historian of the present day , which were not open to Gibbon , for dealing ...
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