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Edward Gibbon, in his classic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, discusses the topic in considerable detail in his famous Chapter Fifteen, summarizing the historical causes of the early success of Christianity as follows: "( 1 ) The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewish religion, but purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit which, instead of inviting, had deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses.
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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
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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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In America pulp magazines such as Weird Tales reprinted classic Gothic horror tales from the previous century, by such authors as Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton and printed new stories by modern authors featuring both traditional and new horrors.
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.
The leading men ahead of Bogart at Warner Bros. included not only such classic stars as James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson, but also actors far less well-known today, such as Victor McLaglen, George Raft and Paul Muni.
One classic example of such a utopia was Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward.
* December 3 – Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic " Orchestrated Hell " broadcast over CBS Radio, describing a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid on Berlin.
* Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward " Fitz " Fitzgerald: the classic anti-hero, an alcoholic, gambling addicted chain smoker, unfaithful to his wife and foul-mouthed, but at the same time, a brilliant psychologist with a good heart.
( Includes classic texts of kitsch criticism from authors like Theodor Adorno, Ferdinand Avenarius, Edward Koelwel, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Hermann Broch, Richard Egenter, etc.
A number of seminal works on directing and directors include Toby Cole and Helen Krich's 1972 " Directors on Directing: A Sourcebook of the Modern Theatre ", Edward Braun's 1982 book " The Director and the Stage: From Naturalism to Growtowski " and Will's 1976 classic " The Director in a Changing Theatre ".
Among the actors who appear from classic films are Edward Arnold, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Wally Brown, James Cagney, William Conrad, Jeff Corey, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Brian Donlevy, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Burt Lancaster, Charles Laughton, Charles McGraw, Fred MacMurray, John Miljan, Ray Milland, Edmund O ' Brien, Vincent Price, Barbara Stanwyck, Lana Turner and Norma Varden.
In 1931 he directed two key films which launched Edward G. Robinson into major stardom, the Oscar-nominated critique of tabloid journalism Five Star Final, and the classic gangster epic Little Caesar.
In 1936, Scott, on loan to independent producer Edward Small, starred in another adventure classic, The Last of the Mohicans, adapted from the 1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper.
* Edward Van Halen played a Minimoog on Van Halen's cover of Martha Martha and the Vandellas ' Motown classic Dancing in the Street.
This practice usually consisted of reading classic legal texts, such as Edward Coke's Institutes of the Lawes of England and William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.
Traditionally, historians had dated the Middle Ages from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, a theory Edward Gibbon famously put forward in the 18th century, and which is inexorably linked to the supposition of a Roman " decline " from a previous classic ideal.
George Edward Arcaro ( February 19, 1916 – November 14, 1997 ), known professionally as Eddie Arcaro, was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who won more American classic races than any other jockey in history and is the only rider to have won the U. S. Triple Crown twice.
It was cited in Edward Gibbon's classic 6 volumes of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 ), and had been earlier mentioned by Degoreus Whear ( 1623 ) who refers to both Jordanes ' De regnorum ac temporum successione and to De rebus Geticis.
He has been the subject of four notable biographies: the first, Man o ' War, by Page Cooper and Roger Treat, was published in 1950, and is a classic of its kind ; Walter Farley, author of The Black Stallion series, also wrote a slightly fictional biography of Man o ' War ; in 2000, Bowen, Edward L. wrote a biography called Man o ' War: Thoroughbred Legends from Eclipse Press ; and in 2006, Dorothy Ours wrote a new, extensively sourced biography entitled Man o ' War: A Legend Like Lightning.
Gravitational Anomalies by Luis Alvarez-Gaumé and Edward Witten: This classic paper, which introduces pure gravitational anomalies, contains a good general introduction to anomalies and their relation to regularization and to conserved currents.
Rose, along with Lara Logan, has hosted the revived CBS classic Person to Person, a news program during which celebrities are interviewed in their homes, originally hosted from 1953 to 1961 by Edward R. Murrow.
In the early 1980s, co-producer Kip Ohman approached screenwriter Charles Edward Pogue with the idea of remaking the classic science fiction horror film The Fly.
Edward J. Nately III is a character in Joseph Heller's classic novel Catch-22.
The initial lineup also included the " Nick at Nite Movie ," which aired nightly and included such classic films as The Red House with Edward G. Robinson and A Star is Born with Janet Gaynor and Frederic March.
Little Caesar became a classic movie, produced by First National Pictures ( Warner Brothers ) and starring the unknown Edward G. Robinson.
From 1980 to 1985, he acted in a variety of contemporary and classic theatre pieces, including the Broadway productions of Eastern Standard and Edward Albee's adaptation of Lolita.
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