 | 1855 - 424 oldal
...October, 1761, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, vrhile the bare-footed friars were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fell of the city first started to my muid. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the... | |
 | 1856 - 590 oldal
...October, 1764, as I sate musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of...Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind.' The church of the Ara Celi, which now crowns the north-east height of the hill, was in Gibbon's eyes,... | |
 | W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 oldal
...the ruins of the capital, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind.' He returned from Italy in 1765, and again entered the militia as lieutenantcolonel commandant... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1856 - 1124 oldal
...the capital, while die bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the ide» of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind.' He returned from Italy in 1765, and again entered the militia as lieutenantcolonel commandant... | |
 | 1857 - 426 oldal
...October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." M. Suard fancifully attributes to the combination of circumstances under which the conception of the... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1857 - 576 oldal
...was as Gibbon " sat musing amidst the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter," that the idea of...the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind.* It is impossible to read a chapter of his history of Constantino without feeling that he... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1857 - 524 oldal
...October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the rums of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fnarn were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fail of thn City first started to my mind. Father Malebranche having completed his studies in philosophy... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 420 oldal
...1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, and while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of...the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1 787, that he wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 oldal
...the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." Many years, however, elapsed before he carried his intentions into effect. On his return to England,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 oldal
...15th of Oct. 1764, as I sat mnsing amid the ruins of the capitol, while barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of...and though my reading and reflections began to point toward that object, some years elapsed, and several avocations intervened, before I was seriously engaged... | |
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It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. 
