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"The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
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Date: 1776-1789
"In the same manner [says Longinus] as some children always remain pigmies, whose infant limbs have been too closely confined; thus our tender minds, fettered by the prejudices and habits of a just servitude, are unable to expand themselves, or to attain that well-proportioned greatness which we ...
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Date: 1776-1789
"The exercises of the body succeeded to those of the mind; and Alexander, who was tall, active, and robust, surpassed most of his equals in the gymnastic arts"
preview | full record— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
