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• If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Discovery, Laughing

  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ch. 65 (1776 - 1788)

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• Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.

  Edward Gibbon

  Men, Might, Lasts

  Edward Gibbon (1788). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.37

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• Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Army, Space

  Edward Gibbon (1870). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.119

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• Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

  Edward Gibbon

  Attachment, History, Important

  Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.175

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• History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Birth, Elevation

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