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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1 by Edward Gibbon, 2010-01-09 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Edward Gibbon, 2001-01-01 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, 2005-08-28 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1 by Edward Gibbon, 1996-08-01 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire boxed set (Penguin Classics) by Edward Gibbon, 1996-11-01 History of the Saracen Empire by Edward Gibbon, 2009-12-18 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireVolume - 5 by Edward Gibbon, 1996-11-01 Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Edward Gibbon, 2010-07-06 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 by Edward Gibbon, 2009-10-04 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 4-6 (Everyman's Library Classics) (v. 4-6) by Edward Gibbon, 1994-10-20 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 by Edward Gibbon, 2009-10-04 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: v. 1-3 (Everyman's Library classics) by Edward Gibbon, 1993-09-16 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon, 2009-10-04 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 by Edward Gibbon, 2009-10-04

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1. Edward Gibbon - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   Edward Gibbon was born in 1737, the son of Edward and Judith Gibbon at Lime Grove, in the town of Putney, near London, England. He had six siblings five  
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   Extractions: Jump to: navigation search Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) Edward Gibbon April 27 January 16 ) was an English historian and Member of Parliament . His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. The History is known principally for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open denigration of organized religion, though the extent of this is disputed by some critics. Edward Gibbon was born in 1737, the son of Edward and Judith Gibbon at Lime Grove, in the town of Putney , near London, England . He had six siblings: five brothers and one sister, all of whom died in infancy. His grandfather, also named Edward, had lost all in the notorious South Sea Bubble scandal, but eventually regained nearly all of it, so that Gibbon's father was able to inherit a substantial estate. As a youth, his health was under constant threat. He described himself as "a puny child, neglected by my Mother, starved by my nurse." At age nine, Gibbon was sent to Dr. Woddeson's school at Kingston-on-Thames, shortly after which his mother died. He then took up residence in the

2. Edward Gibbon
   Edward Gibbon was born in Putney in South London into a prosperous family. His father was a wealthy Tory member of Parliament who went into seclusion and  
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   Extractions: Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) English historian and scholar, the supreme historian of the Enlightenment, who is best-known as the author of the monumental THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, often considered the greatest historical work written in English. "It was at Rome... as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." However, Gibbon's first works were written in French. From 1759 to 1762 Gibbon hold a commission in the Hampshire militia, reaching the rank of colonel. Before 1763 Gibbon had considered various subjects as worthy of the type of philosophical analysis that he wished to apply to history: the life of Sir Walter Raleigh, the history of Switzerland, and others. However, he felt that he had nothing original to say about Elizabethan politics and he could not read German. Between 1774 and 1783 Gibbon sat in the House of Commons, and became a lord commissioner of trade and plantations, partly because he was considered a nuisance as a politician. In 1774 he was elected to Dr Johnson's Club. From 1783 Gibbon spent much of his time in Lausanne and in England with Lord Sheffield (John Baker Holroy) in his Sussex and London houses. After

3. Great Books Index - Edward Gibbon
   Edward Gibbon Great Books Index. Writings of Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88). HTML edition (Christian Classics,  
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4. Edward Gibbon --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
   Britannica online encyclopedia article on Edward Gibbon English rationalist historian and scholar best known as the author of The History of the Decline  
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5. Edward Gibbon
   Edward Gibbon, 17371794, English historian and scholar. Gibbon was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, but thought little of it, as his Autobiography  
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   Extractions: Edward Gibbon, , English historian and scholar. Gibbon was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford , but thought little of it, as his Autobiography reveals. After a brief conversion to Catholicism at the age of sixteen, he was sent to Lausanne , where, under the tuition of a Calvinist pastor, he returned to Protestantism. There he frequented many intellectual salons , and came to know Voltaire . There, too, he became engaged to Suzanne Curchod, later to become wife to Jacques Necker and mother to After he returned to England he began writing, beginning with his ). But his writing career was interrupted by a four-year stint in the Hampshire militia. In Gibbon was in Rome, where he was struck with the idea for what became his greatest work, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . The first volume appeared in , and the series was finished in . The famous chapters 15 and 16 attracted the most attention; in them he criticizes the institutions of early Christianity, and earned for himself the reputation of an atheist, which he hoped to combat in his Vindication of . His Autobiography was published posthumously by his friend John Baker Holroyd, Lord Sheffield, along with other miscellaneous works, in

6. Edward Gibbon - LoveToKnow 1911
   EDWARD GIBBON (17371794), English historian, was descended, he tells us in his autobiography, from a Kentish family of considerable antiquity;  
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   Extractions: EDWARD GIBBON (1737-1794), English historian, was descended, he tells us in his autobiography, from a Kentish family of considerable antiquity; among his remoter ancestors he reckons the lord high treasurer Fiennes, Lord Say and Sele, whom Shakespeare has immortalized in his Henry VI His grandfather was a man of ability, an enterprising merchant of London , one of the commissioners of customs under the Tory ministry during the last four years of Queen Anne, and, in the judgment of Lord Bolingbroke, as deeply versed in the " commerce and finances of England " as any man of his time. He was not always wise, however, either for himself or his country; for he became deeply involved in the South Sea wreck of his estate, and with this his skill and enterprise soon constructed a second fortune. He died at Putney in 1736, leaving the bulk of his property to his two daughters - nearly disinheriting his only son, the father of the historian, for having married against his wishes. This son (by name Edward) was educated at Westminster ' and Cambridge, but never took a degree, travelled, became member of parliament, first for

7. Edward Gibbon - Gibbon, Edward
   Edward Gibbon Gibbon, Edward. Edward Abbey Edward Albee Edward Fairfax Edward gibbon edward Hoagland Edward Young Eli Khamarov Elisabeth Kubler-Ross  
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8. Edward Gibbon - Wikiquote
   Edward Gibbon (173705-08 or 1737-04-27, O.S. - 1794-01-16) was arguably the most important historian since the time of the ancient Roman Tacitus.  
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   Extractions: Jump to: navigation search Edward Gibbon [or , O.S.] - ) was arguably the most important historian since the time of the ancient Roman Tacitus. Gibbon's magnum opus The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , published between 1776 and 1788, is a groundbreaking work of early modern erudition, the broad influence of which endures to this day. Unsourced ... The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered by any mixture of theological rancour; nor was it confined by the chains of any speculative system. The devout polytheist, though fondly attached to his national rites, admitted with implicit faith the different religions of the earth. Fear, gratitude, and curiosity, a dream or an omen, a singular disorder, or a distant journey, perpetually disposed him to multiply the articles of his belief, and to enlarge the list of his protectors. The thin texture of the Pagan mythology was interwoven with various but not discordant materials.

9. Edward Gibbon@Everything2.com
   A consideration of Edward Gibbon s perspective on civilisation and barbarism. I have mostly refered to his Decline and Fall , for obvious reasons.  
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10. Edward Gibbon - Wikipedia
    Translate this page Edward Gibbon wurde als ältestes Kind in eine begüterte Familie in Surrey hinein geboren. Sein Großvater hatte als Kaufmann und Spekulant den Grundstock zum  
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    Extractions: Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Edward Gibbon 8. Mai in Putney bei London 16. Januar in London) war einer der bedeutendsten britischen Historiker Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) Er verfasste als Hauptwerk eine Analyse der Sp¤tantike The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , worin er die Hauptschuld am Untergang des R¶mischen Reiches dem Christentum , der angeblichen Dekadenz des Imperiums sowie dem Einbruch der Germanen gab. Im Byzantinischen Reich (diese Bezeichnung wurde von ihm erst gepr¤gt) sah er eine Fortsetzung und Steigerung dieser Dekadenz, weshalb es seiner Ansicht nach eine orientalische Despotie war, die den Namen „R¶misches Reich“ nicht verdiente. Im Gegensatz dazu sah er die seiner Analyse nach noch naturhaft-gesunden jungen Reiche des mittelalterlichen Nord- und Westeuropa. Auch auf die deutsche Geschichtsschreibung hatte Gibbon groŸen Einfluss. Dieses ist u. a. an der sechsb¤ndigen r¶mischen Geschichte von Wilhelm Drumann zu sehen. Heute sind die Grundgedanken seiner Analyse zwar in der westlichen –ffentlichkeit weiterhin weit verbreitet, allerdings werden sie von Historikern kaum noch in dieser Form vertreten. Mit den von Gibbon noch kaum ber¼cksichtigten

11. Edward Gibbon: Biography Of Edward Gibbon
    EDWARD GIBBON, the historian of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was born at Putney on the 27th of April, 1737, and was the first child of Edward  
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    Extractions: Index He entered parliament for the borough of Liskeard at the beginning of the struggle with America. He sat eight years, but never had the courage to speak; "the great speakers filled him with despair, the poor ones with terror." In 1776, the first volume of The Decline and Fall was published, and its success was prodigious. The reputation of the author was established before the religious world had had time to consider and attack the last chapters of the work - the 15th and 16th - in which, while admitting, or at least not denying the "convincing evidence of the doctrine itself, and the ruling providence of its great author," he proceeds to account for the rapid growth of the early Christian church, by "secondary," or human causes. He finished this great work on the 27th of June 1787, at Lausanne, to which he had retired for quiet and economy, after leaving parliament, and holding office under government for a short time. He died on the 16th of January, 1794, in St. James Street, London. It is not easy to characterize a man of so gigantic and cultivated an intellect in few or many phases. He was a faithful friend, pleasant and hardly rivalled in conversation, not disliked by any who came near him. His Decline and Fall is probably the greatest achievement of human thought and erudition in the department of history. It is virtually a history of the civilized world for thirteen centuries, during which paganism was breaking down and Christianity was superseding it: and thus bridges over the chasm between the old world and the new.

12. Edward Gibbon - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times
    A biography and related information about Edward Gibbon.  
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13. Edward Gibbon: Blogs, Photos, Videos And More On Technorati
    Edward Gibbon said I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the  
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    Extractions: advanced ... Blogger Central Subscribe search in entire post tags only of blogs with any authority a little authority some authority a lot of authority in language all languages Arabic (العربية) Chinese (中文) Dutch (Nederlands) English French (Fran§ais) German (Deutsch) Greek (Ελληνικά) Hebrew (עברית) Italian (Italiano) Japanese (日本語) Korean (한국어) Norwegian (Norsk) Persian (فارسی) Polish (Polski) Portuguese (Portuguªs) Russian (Русский) Spanish (Espa±ol) Swedish (Svenska) Turkish (T¼rk§e) Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) 15 days ago in Authority: 12 http://mdoti.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 01/ 05/ 010508/ The morning brings an email from a friend, who has sent me a few songs by Iggy and the Stooges. He, the friend, mentions how Iggy Pop wanted to emulate John Coltrane, but lacked the ability to play an instrument. Iggy instead used his body as the instrument. 18 days ago in My Day on the Internet No authority yet http://kotzabasis.wordpress.com/ 2007/ 12/ 30/ irans-nuclear-lunge-for-power/

14. Best Of Gibbon's DECLINE & FALL
    Quotations and commentary selected from edward gibbon s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ideas and advice of relevance to society and life today,  
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    Extractions: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Contents and Index On Reading Gibbon Quotations Acknowledgments and Contact Info New Features! Below are inspiring quotations, in context and cross-indexed, from the classic History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . Gibbon's work is superbly written and obviously apropos to life (and, alas, world events) today. I hope you enjoy my selection and arrangement of the excerpts here. My page designs try to be both aesthetic and useful on any browser. For another, independently chosen set of quotes, please consult Eugene Ho's

15. The Edward Gibbon Page
    Commentary on gibbon s life, writing style, and view of religion. Also provides links to etexts and brief reviews of printings.  
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    Extractions: Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) was an 18th Century British historian and the author of "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," one of the few historical works of the modern era to stand comparison with the great classical works of Herodotus, Thucydides and Tacitus both as history and as literature. The comparison with Proust is particularly appropriate, since both Gibbon and Proust made the same (arguable) mistake. Roughly midway through the writing of their respective books, they decided to reconceive their scale. This ended up making their books more than twice as long as they would have been if they'd followed their original conceptions. Without a doubt, this has had the effect of cutting their potential readership in at least half. A lot of people who would read a book of half a million words will balk at attempting a book of a million and a half.

16. Edward Gibbon Quotes - The Quotations Page
    edward gibbon (1737 1794) English historian of Rome more author details edward gibbon; History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes  
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17. Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire | Christian Classics Ethereal Library
    Author, gibbon, edward (17371794). Language, English. Rights, Public Domain. CCEL Subjects, All; History;. LC Call no, DG311. LC Subjects  
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18. Biographies: The Historians: Edward Gibbon (1737-94).
    edward gibbon (173794). He was the son of an English country gentleman and was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford; and, as Chamber s points out,  
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    Extractions: He was the son of an English country gentleman and was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford; and, as Chamber's points out, "he derived little benefit from either." After schooling in Lausanne, Switzerland (during which time he was to fall in love with the parson's daughter, and to which his father put a quick end) the young Gibbon returned to London where he took up residence in his father's household and found the leisure for scholarly study and bookish solitude. Gibbon's cynicism, in regards to history, viz., "little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind" added "a spice to the work which relates it to literature rather than history. His accuracy in the use of his sources has not been questioned." ( Chamber's .) Gibbon's major work, of course was his multi-volumed written through the years, 1776 to 1787 and is the standard history on the Roman civilization. Gibbon was to write an autobiography. QUOTES:- History:- History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. Revolution:- ... our tranquillity has been clouded by the disorders in France ... the revolution, or rather the dissolution of the kingdom, has been heard and felt in the adjacent lands. I beg leave to subscribe my assent to

19. Medieval Sourcebook: Gibbon: The Fall Of The Roman Empire
    In his Autobiography (I follow now a note of J.B. Bury), gibbon adds a note It may edward gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 38  
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    Extractions: Since the first discovery of the arts, war, commerce, and religious zeal have diffused, among the savages of the Old and New World, those inestimable gifts: they have been successively propagated; they can never be lost. We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.[15] [[2]] See the inestimable remains of the sixth book of Polybius, and many other parts of his general history, particularly a digression in the seventeenth [leg. eighteenth] book, in which he compares: the phalanx and the legion [c. 12-15]. [[3]] Sallust, de Bell. Jugurthin. c. 4. Such were the generous professions of P. Scipio and Q. Maximus. The Latin historian had read, and most probably transcribed, Polybius, their contemporary and friend. [[4]] While Carthage was in flames, Scipio repeated two lines of the Iliad, which express the destruction of Troy, acknowledging to Polybius, his friend and preceptor (Polyb. in Excerpt. de Virtut. et Vit. tom. ii. p. 1466-1465 [xxxix. 3]), that, while he recollected the vicissitudes of human affairs, he inwardly applied them to the future calamities of Rome (Appian. in Libycis, p. 136, edit. Toll. [Punica, c. 82]).

20. 4610. Edward Gibbon. 1737-1794. John Bartlett, Comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations,
    4610. edward gibbon. 17371794. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  
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