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. University of California Publications in History - Stran 2001916Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 strani
...known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter', that the idea of writing the decline and fall... | |
| Charles Rockwell - 1842 - 440 strani
...this church of which Gibbon speaks, when he says, — " It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 strani
...15th of October, 1764, as he 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 that work first started to his mind ;" it was in the garden at Lausanne just referred to, that he terminated... | |
| 1843 - 602 strani
...15th of October, 1764, as he 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 that work first started to his mind ;" it was in the garden at Lausanne just referred to, that he terminated... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1844 - 830 strani
...bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, now the Church of the Franciscans, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started in my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than the empire,... | |
| 1849 - 600 strani
...before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th 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 this Decline and Fall... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 strani
...still less." — Vit. Demosth. * " It was on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat mnring there, v. hile the bare.footed fryars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea first started to my mind." — Memoirs of my Life. B Page 17, line 5. For this young FOSCABI, 4'c.... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1846 - 530 strani
...15th of October, 1764, as I sat muting amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-looted frían were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of Ihn City first started to my mind. Father Malebranche having completed his studies in philosophy and... | |
| William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 478 strani
...as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind." To the Romanist, on the contrary, this Church derives its veneration from a miraculous wooden... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 strani
...known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall... | |
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