Citations:Decline and Fall

English citations of Decline and Fall

• 1851, Jno. R. Thompson (editor), The Southern Literary Messenger, volume 17, pages 645-646

  Upon these two, with the Sophist Libanius, obsure and pedantic, but one of Julian's favored counsellors, the great author of the Decline and Fall chiefly trusted and the consequence is that we have from his hands a sketch altogether distorted, colored and unreliable.

• 1851 August, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Leonard Scott & Co. (New York), volume 70, American Edition, volume 33, page 126

  it is recorded by the historian of the Decline and Fall, that the Roman empire was more depopulated, in its later stages, by the migration of the inhabitants of its frontier provinces, than by all the arms of the barbarians

• 1858 January–June, William Scott (editor), “Social Aspects of Imperial Rome”, The Christian Remembrancer, J. & C. Mozley (London), volume 35, page 322

  The genius and the style of the great historian of the ‘Decline and Fall,’ have promoted and confirmed the fancy.

• 1861, John George Sheppard, The Fall of Rome, and the Rise of the New Nationalities, Routledge, preface, page ix

  there is nothing which can be place in comparison with the great work of Gibbon. Subsequent writers have hewn their materials from the gigantic quarry of the Decline and Fall, as the mediæval Romans built their palaces with the stones of the Falvian Amphitheatre.

• 1881, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Christian Institutions, Essays on Ecclesiastical Subjects, Harper & Brothers (New York), pages 167-168

  the “tribunes of the people”are the likeness which the historian of the “Decline and Fall” recognizes in the early Christian Bishops

• 2004, Neil Christie (editor), Landscapes of Change, Rural Evolutions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Ashgate Publishing, page 68

  Spanish research was dominated by a Gibbonian vision of ‘Decline and Fall’