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Best of Gibbon's Decline and Fall Quotations and commentary selected from Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ideas and advice of relevance to society and life today, in the superb language of the 18th century. http://www.his.com/z/gibbon.html

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire etext at CCEL. http://ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Complete online HTML text, extensively annotated, with references cross-linked to the Encyclopedia of the Self. http://www.selfknowledge.com/163au.htm

Edward Gibbon, Historian of the Roman Empire, Part I Essay by Eugene Y. C. Ho originally published in Issue 30 (Apr-Jun 1994) of the Hong Kong intellectual journal Intellectus, to commemorate Gibbon's bicentennial. Describes Gibbon's life, the writing of the Decline and Fall, and the text itself; Part II discusses major themes, prose style, and flaws. http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~zimm/gibho1.html