Gibbon

(noun.) smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies.

(noun.) English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794).

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• This awful revolution, wrote Gibbon of the Western collapse, may be usefully applied to the useful instruction of the present age. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Gibbon, because of his anti-Christian animus, is hostile to Constantine; but he admits that he was temperate and chaste. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Carroll, of Gibbon's division, moved at a double quick with his brigade and drove back the enemy, inflicting great loss. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Mott followed Birney, and Gibbon was held in reserve. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Gibbon commanded Hancock's left, and was ordered to attack, but was not able to accomplish much. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Gibbon,[295] however, is of opinion that there was a valid marriage. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But, as Gibbon points out, our information as to its severity is of very doubtful value. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Gibbon couples the Justinian epidemic with the great comet of 531, and with the very frequent and serious earthquakes of that reign. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Haroun-al-Raschid, says Gibbon, sent Charlemagne by his ambassadors a splendid tent, a water clock, an elephant, and the keys of the Holy Sepulchre. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Gibbon was not so fortunate in his front. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• To Gibbon he must go for a derisive statement of these controversies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Gibbon was placed to the right of Warren, and Birney in his rear as a reserve. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Gibbon's account of the manners and morals of John XII takes refuge at last beneath a veil of Latin footnotes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We have quoted again and again in this history from Gibbon's _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They destroyed, Gibbon notes, the monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland, and the town of Bremen. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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