LeNain de Tillemont: Gibbon's “sure-footed mule”
Gibbon was scrupulous and generous in discharging his intellecttual and scholarly debts. The footnotes in the Decline and Fall (which comprise about a fourth of the work) are a candid and reliable index of the materials used in its composition. The reader of Gibbon is most forcefully struck by those...
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1970
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Church history
Year: 1970, Volume: 39, Issue: 4, Pages: 483-502 |
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