GIBBON, E.: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (The), Vol. 6 (Unabridged)

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Gibbon, Edward, Author.

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English

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Contents:

Chapter 57 ( 10 min., 49 sec. )

From the paths of blood, and such is the history of nations ... ( 09 min., 14 sec. )

The apprehension of such formidable friendship ... ( 10 min., 16 sec. )

With the belief of the Koran, the son of Seljuk ... ( 10 min., 13 sec. )

The false or genuine magnanimity of Mahmud the Gaznevide ... ( 08 min., 54 sec. )

As long as a hope survived, Romanus attempted to rally ... ( 09 min., 59 sec. )

During the life of Alp Arslan ... ( 09 min., 45 sec. )

The greatness and unity of the Turkish Empire expired ... ( 09 min., 31 sec. )

On the hard conditions of tribute and servitude ... ( 10 min., 26 sec. )

The revolution which transferred the sceptre ... ( 11 min., 42 sec. )

Chapter 58 ( 10 min., 13 sec. )

It may occasion some surprise that the Roman pontiff ... ( 10 min., 23 sec. )

I. The right of a just defence may fairly include ... ( 10 min., 19 sec. )

These compensations of the purse and the person ... ( 11 min. )

The fifteenth of August had been fixed in the council ... ( 08 min., 26 sec. )

None of the great sovereigns of Europe embarked their persons ... ( 06 min., 43 sec. )

III. In the south of France, the command was assumed ... ( 09 min., 57 sec. )

Abroad in enterprise and pilgrimage ... ( 11 min., 24 sec. )

In some Oriental tale I have read the fable ... ( 09 min., 23 sec. )

A private letter of Stephen of Chartres ... ( 10 min., 57 sec. )

Had not superstition condemned the sacrilegious prudence ... ( 10 min., 23 sec. )

As long as the horses were fresh ... ( 09 min., 32 sec. )

At the end of seven months, after the ruin of their cavalry ... ( 09 min., 28 sec. )

For their salvation and victory ... ( 08 min., 22 sec. )

The prudence or fortune of the Franks ... ( 10 min., 01 sec. )

On the fifth day, the crusaders made a general assault ... ( 10 min., 56 sec. )

Without this indulgence, the conqueror would have almost ... ( 11 min., 20 sec. )

The justice and freedom of the constitution were maintained ... ( 10 min., 04 sec. )

Chapter 59 ( 09 min., 13 sec. )

I. Of the swarms that so closely trod in the footsteps ... ( 11 min., 17 sec. )

III. The swarms that followed the first crusade ... ( 07 min., 24 sec. )

The enthusiasm of the first crusade ... ( 09 min., 13 sec. )

Ascansar, a valiant Turk, had been the favourite... ( 10 min., 09 sec. )

The Franks were already at the gates of Cairo... ( 11 min., 50 sec. )

During its short existence, the kingdom of Jerusalem... ( 10 min., 35 sec. )

After Jerusalem had been delivered from the presence... ( 10 min., 21 sec. )

Philip Augustus and Richard the First are the only kings... ( 09 min., 10 sec. )

The health both of Richard and Saladin appeared... ( 09 min., 30 sec. )

The persons, the families, and estates of the pilgrims... ( 10 min., 22 sec. )

In complete armour, the oriflamme waving before him... ( 07 min., 24 sec. )

They produce the great charter of their liberties... ( 07 min., 24 sec. )

Chapter 60 ( 08 min., 43 sec. )

Bigotry and national aversion are powerful magnifiers... ( 10 min. )

The two wives of Manuel Comnenus... ( 10 min., 33 sec. )

The Bulgarians were malicious enough to pray... ( 11 min., 59 sec. )

In the invasion of Italy by Attila... ( 11 min., 39 sec. )

The execution of the treaty was still opposed... ( 08 min., 08 sec. )

A double alliance, and the dignity of Caesar... ( 10 min., 22 sec. )

In relating the invasion of a great empire... ( 09 min., 10 sec. )

In the choice of the attack, the French and Venetians... ( 09 min., 45 sec. )

The mixture of two discordant nations in the same capital... ( 09 min., 08 sec. )

Among the Greeks, all authority and wisdom were overborne... ( 11 min., 55 sec. )

Constantinople had been taken by storm... ( 09 min., 30 sec. )

In the meanwhile, his desolate churches were profaned... ( 12 min., 25 sec. )

Chapter 61 ( 07 min., 40 sec. )

In the division of the Greek provinces... ( 09 min., 01 sec. )

As the tyrant, pursued by fear or remorse... ( 09 min., 02 sec. )

The Latin conquerors had been saluted... ( 10 min., 12 sec. )

In all civilised hostility, a treaty is established... ( 10 min., 25 sec. )

The Venetians had engaged to transport Peter... ( 10 min., 26 sec. )

In the double victory of John of Brienne... ( 10 min., 14 sec. )

The Latins of Constantinople were on all sides... ( 12 min. )

After this narrative of the expeditions of the Latins... ( 11 min., 04 sec. )

Digression on the Family of Courtenay ( 06 min., 01 sec. )

II. While Joscelin reigned beyond the Euphrates... ( 09 min., 21 sec. )

III. According to the old register of Ford Abbey... ( 09 min., 16 sec. )

Chapter 62 ( 10 min., 20 sec. )

A matron of the family of the Palaeologi... ( 08 min., 24 sec. )

But his innocence had been too unworthily treated... ( 10 min., 43 sec. )

So eager was the impatience of the prince and people... ( 08 min., 25 sec. )

Arsenius was involved in a vague rumour of conspiracy... ( 11 min., 57 sec. )

But they found a country without a friend... ( 10 min., 15 sec. )

The hostile league against the Greeks... ( 09 min., 21 sec. )

I shall not, I trust, be accused of superstition... ( 11 min., 24 sec. )

After some ages of oblivion, Greece was awakened... ( 08 min., 31 sec. )

Chapter 63 ( 09 min., 34 sec. )

But the younger Andronicus was speedily corrupted... ( 09 min., 57 sec. )

His calamities were embittered by the gradual extinction... ( 10 min., 11 sec. )

Had the regent found a suitable return... ( 09 min., 19 sec. )

The introduction of barbarians and savages... ( 11 min. )

While the regent grasped the sceptre... ( 09 min., 15 sec. )

For the conclusion of this chapter... ( 11 min., 30 sec. )

But the emperor was soon solicited to violate the treaty... ( 05 min., 58 sec. )

Chapter 64 ( 09 min., 31 sec. )

The reason of Zingis was not informed by books... ( 09 min., 12 sec. )

In the West, he touched the dominions of Mohammed... ( 09 min., 37 sec. )

In the attack and defence of places... ( 10 min., 10 sec. )

In his rapid progress, he overran the kingdoms... ( 13 min., 38 sec. )

One hundred and forty years after the death of Zingis... ( 11 min., 50 sec. )

From the conquest of Prusa, we may date the true era... ( 10 min., 31 sec. )

Before his death, he generously recommended another ally... ( 10 min., 10 sec. )

Such was the origin of these haughty troops... ( 08 min., 11 sec. )

Such is the general idea of the Hungarian war... ( 08 min., 46 sec. )

After his enfranchisement from an oppressive guardian... ( 09 min., 01 sec. )

Chapter 65 ( 12 min. )

I. For every war, a motive of safety or revenge... ( 08 min., 46 sec. )

On the banks of the Don, or Tanais, he received... ( 09 min., 26 sec. )

Between two jealous and haughty neighbours... ( 10 min., 06 sec. )

The true succession of the caliphs was a controversy... ( 10 min., 21 sec. )

In that day Bajazet displayed the qualities of a soldier... ( 09 min., 40 sec. )

II. The name of Poggius the Italian is deservedly famous... ( 10 min., 51 sec. )

The recent expulsion of the house of Zingis was an insult... ( 10 min., 24 sec. )

The four following observations will serve to appreciate... ( 11 min., 53 sec. )

In these conflicts, the wisest Turks... ( 06 min., 43 sec. )

But the execution of his last testament... ( 08 min., 30 sec. )

From the time of Orchan and the first Amurath... ( 08 min., 28 sec. )

Chapter 66 ( 10 min., 12 sec. )

If Clement was ill endowed with the virtues of a priest... ( 10 min., 52 sec. )

A special licence was granted to negotiate with the outlaw... ( 10 min., 07 sec. )

During the period of the crusades, the Greeks beheld... ( 09 min., 03 sec. )

After his return, and the victory of Timour, Manuel reigned... ( 11 min., 09 sec. )

To heal the wounds, and restore the monarchy... ( 11 min., 04 sec. )

The resolution of Palaeologus was decided... ( 09 min., 19 sec. )

But as soon as festivity and form had given place... ( 11 min. )

While they were lost in a cloud of dust and darkness... ( 10 min., 52 sec. )

The success of the first trial encouraged Eugenius... ( 10 min., 49 sec. )

The most learned Italians of the fifteenth century... ( 09 min., 22 sec. )

The first steps of learning are slow and laborious... ( 09 minutes, 48 sec.

)

I shall not attempt to enumerate the restorers of Grecian... ( 09 min., 41 sec. )

Nicholas the fifth had been the friend of the most eminent... ( 07 min., 17 sec. )

Before the revival of classic literature... ( 04 minutes, 15 sec.

Chapter 67 ( 08 min., 36 sec. )

The last hope of the falling city and empire... ( 09 min., 15 sec. )

'Sultan Murad, or Amurath, lived forty-nine...' ( 11 min., 02 sec. )

Yet, on this side, the designs of the Roman pontiff... ( 10 min., 59 sec. )

It was on this fatal spot that, instead of finding... ( 12 min., 15 sec. )

In the list of heroes, John Huniades and Scanderberg... ( 11 min., 45 sec. )

Without disparagement to his fame... ( 10 min., 20 sec. )

On the return of Phranza, the treaty was ratified... ( 03 min., 24 sec. )

Chapter 68 ( 10 min., 31 sec. )

The Mohammedan, and more especially the Turkish casuists... ( 09 min., 01 sec. )

Mohammed himself pressed and directed the work... ( 08 min., 46 sec. )

Among the implements of destruction, he studied... ( 10 min., 36 sec. )

In her last decay, Constantinople was still peopled... ( 10 min., 06 sec. )

Of the triangle which composes the figure of Constantinople... ( 11 min., 14 sec. )

Except eighteen galleys of some force... ( 14 min., 37 sec. )

The greatest part of Mohammed's bashaws and Janizaries... ( 09 min., 56 sec. )

The immediate loss of Constantinople may be ascribed... ( 09 min., 56 sec. )

While they expected the descent of the tardy angel... ( 10 min., 25 sec. )

From the first hour of the memorable twenty-ninth of May ( 10 min., 35 sec. )

Constantinople no longer appertains to the Roman historian... ( 09 min., 50 sec. )

It is not easy to pronounce whether the servitude of Demetrius... ( 10 min., 58 sec. )

Chapter 69 ( 08 min., 07 sec. )

Of her two sovereigns, the emperor had precariously reigned... ( 08 min., 54 sec. )

The motives of the Pope's election... ( 09 min., 39 sec. )

The Jews had rejected the Christ when he appeared... ( 10 min., 30 sec. )

The love of ancient freedom has encouraged a belief... ( 12 min., 12 sec. )

The union and vigour of a public council was dissolved... ( 08 min., 34 sec. )

In the first moments of rebellion... ( 09 min., 45 sec. )

Under the reign of Hadrian, when the empire extended... ( 09 min., 33 sec. )

A vacancy of almost three years had preceded... ( 08 min., 49 sec. )

After Benedict's decease, the tedious and equal suspense... ( 10 min., 24 sec. )

Clement's summons was obeyed... ( 11 min., 41 sec. )

Boniface proclaimed a crusade against his personal enemies... ( 06 min., 40 sec. )

Chapter 70 ( 09 min., 34 sec. )

In the act or diploma which was presented to Petrarch... ( 12 min., 07 sec. )

But such voluntary obedience evaporates... ( 10 min., 13 sec. )

The deliverance of his country inspired Rienzi... ( 09 min., 15 sec. )

With equal presumption the tribune watched or reposed... ( 10 min., 31 sec. )

The vision and prophecies of St. Martin and Pope Boniface... ( 08 min., 09 sec. )

After an exile of seven years, the first deliverer... ( 09 min., 18 sec. )

The first and most generous wish of Petrarch... ( 10 min., 26 sec. )

If superstition will interpret an untimely death... ( 08 min., 59 sec. )

I have not undertaken the ecclesiastical history of the schism... ( 10 min., 35 sec. )

The royal prerogative of coining money... ( 09 min. )

It is an obvious truth, that the times must be suited... ( 09 min., 33 sec. )

In the first period of their conquests... ( 09 min., 15 sec. )

Chapter 71 ( 12 min., 11 sec. )

Innumerable buildings, crowded in close and crooked streets... ( 09 min., 55 sec. )

III. The value of any object that supplies the wants... ( 09 min., 51 sec. )

With some slight alterations, a theatre, an amphitheatre... ( 07 min., 40 sec. )

The abolition at Rome of the ancient games... ( 09 min., 07 sec. )

When Petrarch first gratified his eyes with a view... ( 12 minutes, 13 sec. )

Participant:

Timson, David, Reader -- Gibbon, Edward, Author

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