The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
- Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian
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The "Best of" Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Contains inspiring quotations, in context and cross-indexed, from the classic History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon's work is superbly written and obviously apropos to life (and, alas, world events) today. I hope you enjoy my selection and arrangement of the excerpts here. My page designs try to be both aesthetic and useful on any browser.
- Mark Zimmermann
Edward Gibbon - Freedom From Religion Foundation
... Gibbon was a highly skeptical and unreligious Deist, who was particularly critical of the history of the Roman Catholic Church. The "melancholy duty" of the historian, he wrote in his treatise, is to discover "the inevitable mixture of error and corruption" of religion. ...
Edward Gibbon's Books, Articles and other Works - Rise, Fall and Survival of Societies and Civilizations
A discussion of his role and contributions in the field of Classical history, societies and civilizations is to be placed here.
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