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Edward Gibbon · 1887 · Scanned text · Free in the US
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1887, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/32035366); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)
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You’ve reached the end of History of Christianity: comprising all that relates to the progress of the Christian religion in "The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire," and A vindication of some passages in the 15th and 16th chapters.