Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

Most historians, including Edward Gibbon, date the defeat at Manzikert as the beginning of the end of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Adelaide was established as a planned colony of free immigrants, promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution, based upon the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield.

Antoninus in many ways was the ideal of the landed gentleman praised not only by ancient Romans, but also by later scholars of classical history, such as Edward Gibbon or the author of the article on Antoninus Pius in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:

* Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 39

This was the derivation of Alemanni used by Edward Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and by the anonymous contributor of notes assembled from the papers of Nicolas Fréret, published in 1753, who noted that it was the name used by outsiders for those who called themselves the Suevi.

According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

* Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 30 and Chapter 31.

* Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Chapter 38

* Gibbon, Edward.

Edward Gibbon judged Ammianus " an accurate and faithful guide, who composed the history of his own times without indulging the prejudices and passions which usually affect the mind of a contemporary.

Notable 18th-century autobiographies in English include those of Edward Gibbon and Benjamin Franklin.

Edward Gibbon, for instance, calls the sea by this name throughout The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Diocletian soon grew impatient with the city, as the Romans acted towards him with what Edward Gibbon, following Lactantius, calls " licentious familiarity ".

* Gibbon, Edward.

In the 5th century, the Christian historian Socrates Scholasticus described Eusebius as writing for “ rhetorical finish ” and for the “ praises of the Emperor ” rather than the “ accurate statement of facts .” The methods of Eusebius were criticised by Edward Gibbon in the 18th century.

* Edward Gibbon ( 18th century historian ) dismissed his testimony on the number of martyrs and impugned his honesty by referring to a passage in the abbreviated version of the Martyrs of Palestine attached to the Ecclesiastical History, book 8, chapter 2, in which Eusebius introduces his description of the martyrs of the Great Persecution under Diocletian with: " Wherefore we have decided to relate nothing concerning them except the things in which we can vindicate the Divine judgment.

Edward Gibbon ( 27 April 173716 January 1794 ) was an English historian and Member of Parliament.

Edward Gibbon was born in 1737, the son of Edward and Judith Gibbon at Lime Grove, in the town of Putney, Surrey.

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Paula's older brother is Edward Steichen, a talented artist and, for the past half-century, one of the world's eminent photographers.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

But Edward was invading Scotland for precisely the same reason, and his insubordinate vassal was the ally of the king of France.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

Edward Greville, born about 1565, had inherited Milcote on the execution of his father Lodowick for murder in 1589.

Sturley wrote to Quiney that Sir Edward `` gave his allowance and liking thereof, and affied unto us his best endeavour, so that his rights be preserved '', and that `` Sir Edward saith we shall not be at any fault for money for prosecuting the cause, for himself will procure it and lay it down for us for the time ''.

The knights for Warwickshire in this parliament, which ended its session on February 9, were Fulke Greville ( the poet ) and William Combe of Warwick, as Fulke Greville and Edward Greville had been in 1593.

He suggested offering half to Sir Edward, fearing lest `` he shall thinke it to good for us and procure it for himselfe, as he served us the last time ''.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the theoretical example of a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks before.

Other distinguished researchers have been affiliated with Caltech as postdoctoral scholars ( for example, Barbara McClintock, James D. Watson and Sheldon Glashow ) or visiting professors ( for example, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Edward Witten ).

The signage in the London Underground is a classic design example of the modern era and used a typeface designed by Edward Johnston in 1916.

Features of the ' Brahms style ' were absorbed in a more complex synthesis with other contemporary ( chiefly Wagnerian ) trends by Hans Rott, Wilhelm Berger, Max Reger and Franz Schmidt, whereas the British composers Hubert Parry and Edward Elgar and the Swede Wilhelm Stenhammar all testified to learning much from Brahms's example.

Modern ideas in art appeared in commercials and logos, the famous London Underground logo, designed by Edward Johnston in 1919, being an early example of the need for clear, easily recognizable and memorable visual symbols.

The majority of these compositions are a cappella, but some are accompanied by organ, for example Edward Elgar's three motets Op.

The importance of Machiavelli's influence is notable in many important figures in this endeavor, for example Bodin, Francis Bacon, Algernon Sidney, Harrington, John Milton, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Edward Gibbon, and Adam Smith.

The word Ape means pretender or mimic, and Oxfordians maintain the writer whose silent name is bound by one letter is Edward de VerE, although Marston calls the passage an example of " hotchpodge giberdige " written by bad poets, and nowhere does Marston mention Oxford explicitly as a poet, bad or otherwise.

One classic example of such a utopia was Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward.

In number theory, Waring's problem, proposed in 1770 by Edward Waring, asks whether for every natural number k there exists an associated positive integer s such that every natural number is the sum of at most s k < sup > th </ sup > powers of natural numbers ( for example, every number is the sum of at most 4 squares, or 9 cubes, or 19 fourth powers, etc .).

For example, Edward Deci asked his research subjects to solve a soma cube under conditions with varying incentives in his dissertation work on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation establishing the social psychological theory of crowding out.

For example, several of the battles that Edward Shepherd Creasy listed in his famous 1851 book The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World rate hardly a mention here, and the confrontation between Muslims and Christians at Poitiers-Tours in 732, once considered a watershed event, has been downgraded to a raid in force.

During Queen Victoria's widowhood, Edward pioneered the idea of royal public appearances as we understand them today — for example, opening Thames Embankment in 1871, Mersey Tunnel in 1886, and Tower Bridge in 1894.

Edward was still relying upon his French relatives – Isabella's uncle, Louis d ' Évreux, for example had been sent from Paris to assist him – but Hugh Despenser the elder now formed part of the inner circle, marking the beginning of the Despensers ' increased prominence at Edward's court.

Over the next few years, there were several Scottish rebellions against Edward ( for example, in 1297 under William Wallace and Andrew Moray ).

Boas ' student, the linguist Edward Sapir later noted that also English speakers pronounce sounds differently even when they think they are pronouncing the same sound, for example few English speakers realize that the sounds written with the letter < t > in the words " tick " and " stick " are phonetically different, the first being generally affricated and the other aspirated-a speaker of a language where this contrast is meaningful would instantly perceive them as different sounds and tend not to see them as different realizations of a single phoneme.

For example, based on " Brown II ," the U. S. District Court ruled that Prince Edward County, Virginia did not have to desegregate immediately.

The values which Laura precariously, but ultimately successfully, clings to were widely shared and respected ( if not always observed ) at the time of the film's original setting ( the status of a divorced woman, for example, remained sufficiently scandalous in the UK to cause Edward VIII to abdicate in 1936 ).

She also provided her mother-in-law, Isabel, with information on the progress of Edward's campaign to regain the throne: it was she, for example, who replied to Isabel's questions over alleged disrespectful treatment of the Earl of Warwick, by explaining that Edward had " heard that nobody in the city believed that Warwick and his brother were dead, so he had their bodies brought to St Paul's where they were laid out and uncovered from the chest upwards in the sight of everybody.

For example, Edward Lee Howard was dismissed from the CIA when, during a polygraph screening, he truthfully answered a series of questions admitting to minor crimes such as petty theft and drug abuse.

For example, Fred MacMurray talks about it with Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity ( film ); Bette Davis screams about it in All About Eve ; Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper flirt about it in Love in the Afternoon ( 1957 film ); it is featured in Miracle on 34th Street when a trial is held to see if Santa Claus really exists ; Rosie Perez continually reads it in the film White Men Can't Jump ; and Will Smith checks his World Almanac for the exact time of sunset so he can set his digital watch in I Am Legend ( film ).

Their stories were probably invented into short stories and book by Edward J. O ' Reilly in the early 20th Century and are considered to be an example of fakelore.