 | John Gorton - Biography - 1838 - 824 pages
...it was at Rome, as he himself informs us, on the loth October in that year, as he sat musing among the ruins of the capitol, " while the bare-footed...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter," that his idea of writing the decline and fall of the Roman empire entered his mind. He had previously... | |
 | Biography - 1838 - 512 pages
...ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were .tinging vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the City first started to his mind This idea, once suggested, was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented him from immediately... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 pages
...of the Capitol, whilst 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." XC. How much of life is lost ! The entire sentiment is from Pliny : while gazing on the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 pages
...cool and minute investigaton. ' 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 Jnpiter, now the church of the Zocolants. or Franciscans, that the idea of writing the decline and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1?64, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter3, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my... | |
 | 1839 - 366 pages
...standing that he says, " he sat musing among the ruins of the Capitol on the 1 5th of October, 1764, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that his first idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire entered his mind." I am therefore... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...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 of the city first started to my mind. But my original... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 pages
...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 of the city first started to my mind. But my original... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - Literature - 1840 - 386 pages
...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 Jupiter3, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my... | |
 | Francis Alexander Durivage - Chronology, Historical - 1841 - 794 pages
...work, the Decline and fall of Ulf Raman Empire, at Home, as he sat amidst the ruins of the capítol, " while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter." He died in England, on the 16th of January, 1794, in the 57th year of his age. GIBRALTAR, a rocky promontory,... | |
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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 bare-footed 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. 
