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 ".

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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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Historian Edward Ingram has noted that if Nelson had successfully intercepted Bonaparte at sea as ordered, the ensuing battle could have annihilated both the French fleet and the transports.

* Edward Soja ( born 1941 ), noted for his work on regional development, planning and governance, along with coining the terms synekism and postmetropolis.

Soviet physicists later noted that they could see as well as the Americans eventually did that the early designs by Fuchs and Edward Teller were useless.

The noted academic writer on science fiction Edward James sums up the New Wave and its impact as follows:

At a dinner with in November with Edward Hamilton, his former private secretary, Hamilton noted that " What is now uppermost in his mind is what he calls the spirit of jingoism under the name of Imperialism which is now so prevalent ".

Prince Edward was placed under the supervision of the queen's brother Anthony, Earl Rivers, a noted scholar, and in a letter to Rivers, Edward IV set down precise conditions for the upbringing of his son and the management of his household.

He noted the deaths of Harthacnut ( 1042 ), Godwin, Earl of Wessex ( 1053 ), and Edward the Exile ( 1057 ) formed a suspect pattern, though the primary sources were silent on the subject.

Sten Körner also noted that the death of Harthacnut could be part of a plot, but also did not further explore the notion though the implication would be that Edward the Confessor was behind this plot.

His efforts to negotiate with the noted and self-educated wealthy art collector, Charles Drury Edward ( CDE ) Fortnum, for the privilege of housing the latter's extensive art collection, were being undercut by the university administrators and were about to fail.

Edward III ( 13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377 ) was King of England from 1327 until his death and is noted for his military success.

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Edward is noted as the king's son.

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.

The noted scholar Edward Augustus Freeman said he was " the father of comparative philology ," and in the preface to the last volume of Gerald's works in the Rolls Series, he calls him " one of the most learned men of a learned age ," " the universal scholar.

Her first marriage, on 28 September 1933, was to Edward Alec Abbot Snelson ( 1904 – 1992 ), later Sir Edward, a British civil servant who became a noted judge and expert in Indian affairs.

As a briefing for prime minister Edward Heath later noted, Whitelaw " found the experience of meeting and talking to Mr Mac Stíofáin very unpleasant ".

Edward noted his uncle's death in his Chronicle: " the duke of Somerset had his head cut off upon Tower Hill between eight and nine o ' clock in the morning ".

A noted explorer, Charles Edward Douglas, claims in his journals that he had an encounter with two raptors of immense size in Landsborough River valley ( probably during the 1870s ), and that he shot and ate them.

Costain noted in his foreword that he initially intended the book to be about Bayan and Edward I, but became caught up in the legend of Thomas a Becket's parents: an English knight married to an Eastern girl.

Edward St. John Gorey ( February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000 ) was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books.

Among writers in English noted for nonsense verse are Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash, Mervyn Peake, Colin West, Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss and Spike Milligan.

The naturalist Edward Nelson, who visited the island in 1878, noted 6 people living on Nelson Island: 5 Yupik and one non-Yupik trader.