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...The only Englishmen in Whatmore’s cast of characters, Edward Gibbon and Thomas Paine, both spent the most creative portions of their lives overseas....
...I have given up reading Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I confess I only got to p634 of a 1,500-page edition....
...Some stuff I have enjoyed this week I am still reading Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire....
...I am still reading Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Enjoy your weekend, whatever reading matter your nose is buried in. Jonathan GuthrieHead of Lex...
...Stuff I enjoyed this week I am still reading Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire....
...The sale attracted more than 1,000 customers in a few weeks, while ownership of a second item on the platform, an Edward VIII penny coin, sold out in under four days, the company said in its trading statement...
...Things I have enjoyed this week I am still reading Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire....
...The author, Edward Gibbon, died in 1794. The book is, however, superbly well written....
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...A typical day began with an hour’s exercise before breakfast, followed by two hours of piano practice and an afternoon ploughing through Edward Gibbon’s multi-volume The History of the Decline and Fall of...
...Edward Gibbon devoted six volumes of prose and much of his romantically arid life to his....
...Gibbons took his own life in 2013, days before a deposition in a patent lawsuit about the company’s technology....
...The Imperium has based its look on Ancient Rome, with its columns, statues, armour and robes — appropriate given that Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall was Asimov’s own inspiration....
...This was the same wilderness that, more than a millennium on, would inspire Edward Gibbon, “musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol”, to see the city as a monument to utter decay....
...Edward Carson, leader of the Ulster Unionists, saw the proposal as “wrecking manoeuvre” against the entire plan for home rule rather than a goal....
...Auctions also appear in Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, as well as in Samuel Pepys’s diaries....
...I see what he means when we arrive at the Carved Room, and open the curtains to reveal what must be the 3rd Earl’s finest achievement: a wall crowded with the elaborate wood-carvings of Grinling Gibbons...
...Edward Gibbon, the 18th-century historian, asserted near the start of his Decline and Fall of the Roman empire that Croatia and Bosnia were “still infested by tribes of barbarians”....
...Members ranged from moral and political thinkers such as Adam Smith and Edmund Burke, historians such as Edward Gibbon, to artists such as Joshua Reynolds and dramatists including Richard Sheridan, Oliver...
...That’s Edward Gibbon summing up a fear still with Europeans, as they once more face Muslims arriving from across the Mediterranean....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include: Next, Stanley Gibbons and Standard Chartered....
...Sir, If we look to the 18th century for guidance, Boswell’s glosses on Dr Johnson (Letters, October 20) can be supplemented by Edward Gibbon in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: “It is the duty of...
...Stanley Gibbons traces its roots back to 1856 when Edward Stanley Gibbons bought a sackful of rare South African stamps from two sailors....
...Rather than their more famous 18th-century descendants such as Montesquieu, Voltaire and Edward Gibbon, it was these men of letters who really started to alter Europeans’ knowledge of Muslim lands as they...
...Nixey’s version espouses a narrative familiar to the readers of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Christianity is seen as a brutal force for philistinism and iconoclasm....
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