 History is the most popular species of writing, since it can adapt itself to the highest or the lowest capacity. I had chosen an illustrious subject ; Rome is familiar to the schoolboy and the statesman, and my narrative was deduced from the last period...  The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon - Page 241by Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 435 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...it can adapt itself to the highest or the lowest capacity. I had chosen an illustrious subject. Rome is familiar to the school-boy and the statesman; and...light and liberty would receive, without scandal, an inquiry into the human causes of the progress and establishment of Christianity. I am at a loss how... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...it can adapt itself to the highest or the lowest capacity. I had chosen an illustrious subject. Rome is familiar to the school-boy and the statesman ;...light and liberty would receive, without scandal, an inquiry into the human causes of the progress and establishment of Christianity. I am at a loss how... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...capacity. I had chosen an illustrious subject. Rome is familiar to the school boy and the statesman ; anrl my narrative was deduced from the last period of classical...an age of light and liberty would -receive, without srandal, an enquiry into the human causes of the progress and establishment of Christianity. I am at... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...illustrious subject. Rome is familiar i to the school-boy and the statesman ; and my narra- i tive was deduced from the last period of classical reading....light and liberty would receive, without scandal, an inquiry into the human causes of the progress and establishment of Christianity. I am at a loss how... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...it can adapt itself to the highest or the lowest capacity. 1 had chosen an illustrious subject. Rome is familiar to the school-boy and the statesman ;...light and liberty would receive, without scandal, an inquiry into the human causes of the progress and establishment of Christianity. I am at a loss how... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...it can adapt itself to the highest or the lowest capacity. I had chosen an illustrious subject. Rome is familiar to the schoolboy and the statesman ; and...light and liberty would receive, without scandal, an inquiry into the human causes of the progress and establishment of Christianity. I am at a loss how... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...but whatever may be m tncccti, be finds in this very application a pleasure ever varied and ever new. I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, withou betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was es hausted in a few days ; a second... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pages
...it can adapt itself to the highest or the lowest capacity. I had chosen an illustrious subject. Rome is familiar to the schoolboy and the statesman ; and...light and liberty would receive, without scandal, an inquiry to the human causes of the progress and establishment of Christianity. (4) I am at a loss how... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 pages
...it can adapt itself to the highest or the lowest capacity. I had chosen an illustrious subject. Rome is familiar to the schoolboy and the statesman ; and...light and liberty would receive, without scandal, an inquiry to the human causes of the progress and establishment of Christianity (4). I am at a loss how... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...it can adapt itself to the highest or the lowest capacity. I had chosen an illustrious subject. Home is familiar to the schoolboy and the statesman ; and...light and liberty would receive, without scandal, an inquiry to the human causes of the progress and establishment of Christianity (4). I am at a loss how... | |
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