 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
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1854 - 540 strani
...ana Italy; and it was while he sat musing among the ruins of the Capitol, and the "surefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing a history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire first arose in his mind . Several other historical... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 strani
...known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1704, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,7 that the idea of writing the decline and fall... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 strani
...and the contents of a vast magazine. " It was at Rome," says Gibbon, " 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 (then a church of the Franciscans), that the idea... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 strani
...other. — (Beloe's Sexagenarian.) GIBBON'S ROMAN EMPIRE. 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 lEABJfDfG AND LABOURS. vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of •writing... | |
 | 1854 - 428 strani
...and the contents of a vast magazine. " It was at Rome," says Gibbon, " 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 (then a church of the Franciscans), that the idea... | |
 | 1855 - 424 strani
...15th of 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... | |
 | W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 strani
...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1857 - 576 strani
...starting-point. It 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 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 strani
...15th of 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... | |
 | 1857 - 456 strani
...any sketch of Gibbon, however brief: — "It was at Rome," says he, "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... | |
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