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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 1 is a book written by Edward Gibbon. It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great novel will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, History of the Decline and Fall of the... read more
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“The narrow policy of preserving, without any foreign mixture, the pure blood fo the ancient citizens, had checked the fortune, and hastened the ruin, of Athens and Sparta. The aspiring genius of Rome sacrificed vanity to ambition, and deemed it more prudent, as well as honorable, to adopt virtue and merit for her own wheresoever they were found, among slaves or strangers, enemies or barbarians. . . Yet the wisest princes, who adopted the maxims of Augustus, guarded with the strictest care the dignity of the Roman name, and diffused the freedom of the city with a prudent liberality.”
Edward Gibbon
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- Rome
- Italy
- Germany
- Europe
- Gaul
- Africa
- Syria
- Egypt
- Britain
- Spain
- Greece
- Perfia
- Niger
- Armenia
- Carthage
- Antioch
- Athens
- Alexandria
- Aquileia
- Dacia
- Nero
- Pannonia
- Caracalla
- Afia
- India
- Seleucia
- Ravenna
- Trebizond
- Mefopotamia
- Thrace
- Bofphorus
- Sicily
- Macedonia
- Mauritania
- Emefa
- Jupiter
- Auguftus
- Hellefpont
- Alia
- Sweden
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- Edward Gibbon (Author)
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- Dewey: 937.06
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