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    Edward Gibbon FRS (/ˈɡɪbən/; 8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician. His most important work, The History of...
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    Edward Gibbon Wakefield (20 March 1796 – 16 May 1862) was a British criminal who became a politician in colonial Canada and New Zealand. He is considered...
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    of the Roman Empire, is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon. The six volumes cover, from 98 to 1590, the peak of the Roman Empire...
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  • Shrigley abduction was an 1826 British case of a forced marriage by Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the 15-year-old heiress Ellen Turner of Pott Shrigley....
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  • Edward Gibbon (1707–1770) was an 18th-century English MP: for Petersfield from 1734 to 1741; and Southampton from 1741 to 1747. Gibbon was the only son...
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    Greed (section Edward Gibbon)
    their own interest." In his account of the Sack of Rome, historian Edward Gibbon remarks that: avarice is an insatiate and universal passion; since the...
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  • Cecil Edward Gibbon was an Anglo-Pakistani politician who served as the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 1955 to 1958. Gibbon was...
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    age, he endured one of the worst reputations among Roman emperors. Edward Gibbon, notably, wrote that Elagabalus "abandoned himself to the grossest pleasures...
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    introduced by historian Edward Gibbon in his 1776 book The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Though Gibbon was not the first to speculate...
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    al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi, governor of al-Andalus. Several historians, such as Edward Gibbon, have credited the Christian victory in the battle as an important factor...
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    continuities throughout and beyond the political collapse. Since 1776, when Edward Gibbon published the first volume of his The History of the Decline and Fall...
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  • the Qu. Inspired by the science fiction works of Olaf Stapledon and Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Kosemen worked...
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    the good-will of their subjects, and the attachment of the senate. Edward Gibbon wrote in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that...
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  • was shaped and developed by figures such as Voltaire, David Hume, and Edward Gibbon, who among others set the foundations for the modern discipline. In...
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    of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by the English historian Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) has been reprinted many times over the years in various...
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  • Nebraska, USA Gibbon, Oregon, USA Gibbon Bay, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica Ray Gibbon Drive, St Albert, Canada Gibbon (surname) Edward Gibbon, English...
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  • Wakefield (1793–1873), the mother of Charles Torlesse (1825–1866); Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862); Daniel Bell Wakefield (1798–1858); Arthur Wakefield...
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    Edward Stanley Gibbons (21 June 1840 – 17 February 1913) was an English stamp dealer and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd, publishers of the Stanley Gibbons...
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    Edward Gibbons (bapt. 21 March 1568 – in or before July 1650) was an English choirmaster and composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods...
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    original on 11 March 2022. Edward Gibbon, The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, (The Modern Library, 1932), chap. VI., p. 114 Gibbon, Ibid. Herodian, History...
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  • America), his work on the history of English common law, his treatment of Edward Gibbon and other Enlightenment historians, and, in historical method, for his...
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    Bibliography Elliott, Edward Bishop (1862), Horae Apocalypticae, vol. I (5th ed.), London, England: Seely, Jackson and Halliday Gibbon, Edward (1776). The History...
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    criticized during the Enlightenment and afterwards, most notably by Edward Gibbon. This can be attributed to the political anticlerical and secular tenor...
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  • Sortes Sanctorum: Gibbon, Du Cange, and Early Christian Lot Divination" Journal of Early Christian Studies 10.1, pp. 77–130. Edward Gibbon (1781). The History...
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    or include Kaurna names for many local places. Based on the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield about colonial reform, Robert Gouger petitioned the British...
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    The English historian Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) is known primarily as the author of the magisterial The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...
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    and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 1) Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...
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    fighting, and Aëtius failed to press his advantage, according to Edward Gibbon and Edward Creasy, because he feared the consequences of an overwhelming Visigothic...
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    37:1 Edward Gibbon (1932), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The Modern Library, ch. XII, p. 284 Gibbon, pp. 289, 290 Gibbon, p. 283 Gibbon, p....
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    17 June 1843) served with the Royal Navy before joining his brother, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, in founding the New Zealand Company settlement of Nelson...
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