Edward Gibbon

Recall Edward Gibbon's description of the desiccated nobility in early-fifth-century Rome: "They contend with each other in the empty vanity of titles and surnames, and curiously select the most lofty and sonorous appellations … which may impress the ears of the vulgar with astonishment and respect."

Archive 2005-03-01 2005

And while thinkers such as Edward Gibbon would happily ýhave regarded the pagan as the first European, the founding fathers (yes, Europe, too, has ýits founding fathers) could not: they were all devout Catholics.

The First European 2007

When Marcus Aurelius became the Roman emperor, in 161 A.D., ruling the largest state the world had ever known, it was "the period in the history of the world," according to Edward Gibbon, "during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous."

The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire? 2011

The book is also very well written, the model being Edward Gibbon's history of the Roman Empire's decline.

A Very English Controversialist Norman Stone 2011

Edward Gibbon noted that the fundamental cause for the fall of the Roman Empire wasn't aggressive barbarians or lead in the dinnerware.

Seth Shostak: American Space Research: An Also-Ran? Seth Shostak 2011

He writes about Backhouse as Edward Gibbon might about a mad Roman emperor or an errant pope.

Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver Joseph Epstein 2011

Edward Gibbon noted that the fundamental cause for the fall of the Roman Empire wasn't aggressive barbarians or lead in the dinnerware.

Seth Shostak: American Space Research: An Also-Ran? Seth Shostak 2011

David Hume and Edward Gibbon first tapped it in the 18th century.

A World We Have Lost William Anthony Hay 2011

Edward Gibbon noted that the fundamental cause for the fall of the Roman Empire wasn't aggressive barbarians or lead in the dinnerware.

Seth Shostak: American Space Research: An Also-Ran? Seth Shostak 2011

A truly strong country is one in which people are happy and have a lot of things, though at one time, as Edward Gibbon describes it in "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," "So rapid were the motions of the Persian cavalry," that the prosperous and relaxed citizens of Antioch were surprised while at the theater, and slaughtered as their city burned around them.

Farewell to America's China Station 2010