| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 436 pages
...writers, Eutropius, the younger Victor, Orosius, Jerom, Zosimus, Philostorgius, and Gregory of Tours ; their knowledge will appear gradually to increase,...as" their means of information must have diminished ; a circumstanw which frequently occurs in historical disquisition. strong guard to Pola, in Istria,... | |
| John Sundins Stamp - 1849 - 650 pages
...writers, Eutropiue, the younger Victor, Orowns, Jerome, Zosimns, Philostorgins, and Gregory of Tours, their knowledge will appear gradually to increase,...as their means of information must have diminished ; a circumstance which frequently occur* in historical disquisition. (Gibbon.) t Snch hanghty contempt... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pages
...writer.-!, Eutropius, the younger Victor, Orosiua, Jerom, Zosimus, Philostorgius, and Gregory of Tours, their knowledge will appear gradually to increase...as their means of information must have diminished, a circumstance which frequently occurs in historical disquisition. 17 Amiuianus (1. xiv. c. 1 1 ) uses... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 642 pages
...writers, Eulropius, the younger Victor, Orosiua, Jerom, Zosimus, Philostorgiua, and Gregory of Tours, their knowledge will appear gradually to increase, as their means of information must hare diminished: a circumstance which frequently occurs in historical disquisition. u Ammian. (1. xiv.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 602 pages
...writers, Eutropius. the younger Victor, Orosius, Jerom, / :,>-imus, Philostorgius, and Gregory of Tours; their knowledge will appear gradually to increase,...as their means of information must have diminished ; a circumstance which frequently occurs in historical disquisition. [See Appendix 14.] 17 Ammianus... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 728 pages
...all-powerful influence over the chroniclers of both nations, after the question of feudal dependence had once been raised, and as the accounts of the earlier...grossest ignorance or the most unblushing effrontery. The same class which supplied the forgers of charters and the fabricators of false claims also compiled... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1906 - 492 pages
...writers, Eutropius, the younger Victor, Orosius, Jerom, Zosimus, Philostorgius, and Gregory of Tours, their knowledge will appear gradually to increase,...as their means of information must have diminished; a circumstance which frequently occurs in historical disquisition. [See Appendix 9.] " Ammianus (1.... | |
| Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pages
...writers, Eutropius, the younger Victor, Orosius, Jerom[e], Zosimus, Philostorgius, and Gregory of Tours, their knowledge will appear gradually to increase,...as their means of information must have diminished: a circumstance which frequently occurs in historical disquisition" (2.:2.nn). It is not just that historians... | |
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