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Hadrian is considered by many historians to have been wise and just: Schiller called him " the Empire's first servant ", and British historian Edward Gibbon admired his " vast and active genius ", as well as his " equity and moderation ".

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.

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.

* March 7 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England, is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the future politician in colonial New Zealand.

Since the time of the historian Edward Gibbon, the split between the Church of Rome and the Orthodox Church has been conveniently dated to 1054, though the reality is more complex.

According to Byzantine chronicles, on his abdication he achieved some degree of anecdotal fame by crying out the verse from Ecclesiastes, ' Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ' during Justinian's triumph in Contstantinople .< ref > Edward Gibbon,

Other modern historians, by contrast, are divided over the battle's importance, and considerable disagreement exists as to whether the victory was responsible — as Gibbon and his generation of historians claimed, and which is echoed by many modern historians — for saving Christianity and halting the conquest of Europe by Islam.

It is essential however, to note that within the first group, those who agree the Battle was of macrohistorical importance, there are a number of historians who take a more moderate and nuanced approach to supporting the battle's importance, rather than the more dramatic rhetoric of Gibbon.

The courthouse is also the site of the legend of Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson proving the edibility of the tomato.

Further exploration of the Amazon Basin and the economy of trade in various species of the bark in 18th century is captured by the extract from a book by Lardner Gibbon:

Gibbon is a city in Sibley County, Minnesota, United States.

* Joe Gibbon ( April 10, 1935 ) is a former professional baseball player.

Gibbon is a city in Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States.

Gibbon is located at ( 40. 747656 ,-98. 844381 ).

Evoking Enlightenment thinkers like Voltaire, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon and — especially — Hegel, in 1963 he made the now-famous remark that Africa had no history prior to European exploration and colonization, saying rather that “ there is only the history of Europeans in Africa.

On the other hand, this outlook, together with his obvious love of his subject matter and of English civilization, helps to place the reader within the age being described in a personal way that no cold neutrality could, and Macaulay's History is generally recognized as one of the masterpieces of historical writing and a magisterial literary triumph only comparable as such to Gibbon and Michelet.

Only the separation is new: for example, in the 18th century, Edward Gibbon attended Westminster from the age of 11.

A different approach to prediction is suggested by models such as that proposed by Gallistel & Gibbon ( 2000, 2002 ).

Edward Gibbon speaks of his learning as " immense ," and says that his " skill in employing facts is equal to his learning ," although he severely criticizes his method and style.

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.

The style of Mitford is natural and lucid, but without the rich colour of Gibbon.

Edward Gibbon states that the crowning of Leo on his accession by Anatolius is the first instance of the kind on record ( Theophanes, Chronicle p. 95 ).

A great great nephew of William and Edward Gibbon Wakefield, William Clague is the great great grandson of John Howard Wakefield, one of the original brothers.

Marsh Gibbon is a village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England.

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During Kennedy's tenure in office, the Navy organized four important naval expeditions including that which sent Commodore Matthew C. Perry to Japan and Lieutenant William Lewis Herndon and Lieutenant Lardner Gibbon to explore the Amazon.

Edward Gibbon writes that Honorius excluded all persons who were adverse to the Catholic Church from holding any office in the state, that he obstinately rejected the service of all those who dissented from his religion, and that the law was applied in the utmost latitude and rigorously executed.

The novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon ( James Leslie Mitchell ) attended school at what was the old Mackie Academy ( now Arduthie Primary ).

" This Mitford certainly was not, but his pre-eminence in the little school of English historians who succeeded Hume and Gibbon would be easier to maintain.

He received the rudiments of an excellent education at a free school in Dublin, and afterwards spent a year or two ( 1751 – 1752 ) under his father's roof at Skeyton Rectory, Norfolk, and elsewhere, and for a short time he had Edward Gibbon as a fellow-pupil.

Marsh Gibbon Church of England School is a mixed, voluntary aided infant school, with approximately 100 pupils.

On the other hand, Gibbon had assigned a major portion of the responsibility for the decay to the influence of Christianity, and is often, though perhaps unjustly, seen as the founding father of the school of monocausal explanation.

David Gibbon took over as Housemaster from Andrew Wright in September 2007, he was previously Head of Mathematics at the school.

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