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Quotes from The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire — Edward Gibbon

1737–1794 England

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The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776)

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