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Edward Gibbon

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Noun1.Edward GibbonEdward Gibbon - English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
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As Edward Gibbon wrote in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: "The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
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Edward Gibbon concluded his three-volume work with some condensed observations regarding the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
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The most prominent of all the historians of Rome, Edward Gibbon, in his magisterial treatise entitled The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, concluded that Christianity was principally responsible.
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