 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...says, at Rome, on the 15th of October, 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 writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind. It. was on the night... | |
 | Biography - 1836 - 506 pages
...connected what he had read with what he saw ; and it was when he was musing in 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 his mind. This idea, once suggested,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...friends, he proceeded to Italy. It was at Rome, as " he sat musing amongst 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 his mind." He returned from Italy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 882 pages
...panegyric. It was at Rome, on the loth 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 rny mind. But my original plan... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...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 plan... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...friends, he proceeded to Italy. It was at Rome, as "he sat musing amongst 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 his mind." He returned from Italy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...fame. "It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as he sat musing umidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter (now the church of the Zoccolants, or Franciscan friars), that the idea of writing the DECUNE and FA... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - American periodicals - 1838 - 546 pages
...the conduct of his work. " It was." says Gibbon, " 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."* In the same manner,... | |
 | Biography - 1838 - 482 pages
...connected what he had read with what he saw ; and it was when he was musing in 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 his mind. This idea, once suggested,... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...the conduct of his work. " It was," says Gibbon, " 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."* In the same manner,... | |
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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. 
