 | 1829 - 598 pages
...Home,' he tells us, 'on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat •musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed ' friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, (now the ' church of the Franciscan friars.) that the idea of writing the ' Decline and Fall of the... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...on the 15th of October (in the year following), as he sat musing among the ruins of the capítol, " while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in...idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the Roman empire entered his mind. Gibbon returned to England in 1765. In 1 776 appeared the first volume of... | |
 | Religion - 1830 - 580 pages
...Rome," he tells us, " on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, (now the church of the Franciscan friars,) that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the City... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Italy - 1831 - 480 pages
...exceedingly uneven from age. . It was in this church, ' as he sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,' that Gibbon first conceived, as he tells us, the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the City. To a... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - Engraving - 1831 - 394 pages
...It was at Rome, on the 15th October, 1764, as I sate musing amidst the ruins 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." The Temple of Jupiter,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1832 - 540 pages
...France, Switzerland, and Italy; and it was while he sat musing among the ruins of the Capitol, and the barefooted 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.... | |
 | John Gorton - 1833 - 820 pages
...himself informs us, on the lath October in that year, as he sat musing among the ruins of the capítol, " while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers...idea of writing the decline and fall of the Roman empire entered his mind. He had previously thought of the history of the republic of Florence ; and... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 630 pages
...informs us, on the 15th of October, in that year, as he sat musing among the ruins of the capitol, " while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in...idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire entered his mind. He had previously thought of the history of the republic of Florence, and... | |
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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. 
