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Author: Edward Gibbon
Number of Pages: 260 pages
Published Date: 12 Sep 2013
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781230351223
File size: 40 Mb
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...population, see St Croix, Acad, des Inscrip. xlviii. Boeckh, Public Economy of Athens, i 47. Eng. Trans. Fynes Clinton, Fasti Hellerici, vol. i. p. 381. Ths lattM tuihor estimates the crtuens of Sparta at 33, (00.--M CHAPTER X. THE EMPERORS DECIUS, GALLUS, iEMILIANtJS, VALERIAN AM GALLIENUS. THE GENERAL IRRUPTION OF THE EAI.EARI ANS. THE THIRTY TYRANTS. From the great secular games celebrated by Philip, to the death of the emperor Gallienus, there elapsed twenty yean of shame and misfortune. During that calamitous period every instant of time was marked, every province of the Roman world was afflicted, by barbarous invaders and mili tary tyrants, and the ruined empire seemed to approach the last and fatal moment of its dissolution. The confusion of the times, and the scarcity of authentic memorials, oppose equal difficulties to the historian, who attempts to preserve a clear and unbroken thread of narration. Surrounded with imperfect fragments, always concise, often obscure, and sometimes contradictory, he is reduced to collect, to compare, and to conjecture: and though he ought never to place his conjectures in the rank of facts, yet the knowledge of human nature, and of the sure operation of its fierce and unrestrained passions, might, on some occasions, supply the want of histor ical materials. There is not, for instance, any difficulty in conceiving, that the successive murders of so many emperors had loosened all the ties of allegiance between the prince and people; that all the generals of Philip were disposed to imitate the example of their master; and that the caprice of armies, long since haoituated to frequent and violent revolutions, might every da raise to the throne the most obscure of their fellow-soldiers. History can only..
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 1 .Edward Gibbon
Author: Edward Gibbon
Number of Pages: 260 pages
Published Date: 12 Sep 2013
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781230351223
File size: 40 Mb
File Name: The.Decline.and.Fall.of.the.Roman.Empire.Volume.1.pdf
Download Link: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...population, see St Croix, Acad, des Inscrip. xlviii. Boeckh, Public Economy of Athens, i 47. Eng. Trans. Fynes Clinton, Fasti Hellerici, vol. i. p. 381. Ths lattM tuihor estimates the crtuens of Sparta at 33, (00.--M CHAPTER X. THE EMPERORS DECIUS, GALLUS, iEMILIANtJS, VALERIAN AM GALLIENUS. THE GENERAL IRRUPTION OF THE EAI.EARI ANS. THE THIRTY TYRANTS. From the great secular games celebrated by Philip, to the death of the emperor Gallienus, there elapsed twenty yean of shame and misfortune. During that calamitous period every instant of time was marked, every province of the Roman world was afflicted, by barbarous invaders and mili tary tyrants, and the ruined empire seemed to approach the last and fatal moment of its dissolution. The confusion of the times, and the scarcity of authentic memorials, oppose equal difficulties to the historian, who attempts to preserve a clear and unbroken thread of narration. Surrounded with imperfect fragments, always concise, often obscure, and sometimes contradictory, he is reduced to collect, to compare, and to conjecture: and though he ought never to place his conjectures in the rank of facts, yet the knowledge of human nature, and of the sure operation of its fierce and unrestrained passions, might, on some occasions, supply the want of histor ical materials. There is not, for instance, any difficulty in conceiving, that the successive murders of so many emperors had loosened all the ties of allegiance between the prince and people; that all the generals of Philip were disposed to imitate the example of their master; and that the caprice of armies, long since haoituated to frequent and violent revolutions, might every da raise to the throne the most obscure of their fellow-soldiers. History can only..
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