The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Volume 6: (Aberdeen Classics Collection) by Edward Gibbon

The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Volume 6: (Aberdeen Classics Collection)

Edward Gibbon

760 pages first pub 1788 (editions)

nonfiction history politics adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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In a style less grave than that of history, I should perhaps compare the emperor Alexius to the jackal, who is said to follow the steps, and to devour the leavings, of the lion. Whatever had been his fears and toils in the passage of the first cru...

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