 | 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...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... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 pages
...Gibbon, " on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sate musing amidst " the ruins of the Capitol, whilst the barefooted friars were " singing vespers in the...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... | |
 | Biography - 1838 - 512 pages
...and it was when he was musing in the 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... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 pages
...Roman Empire. During his visit to Rome in 17C4, 'as he sat musing amidst 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 tirst started to his mind.' Many years however... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pages
...Roman Empire. During his visit to Rome in 1 764, ' as he sat musing amidsi 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. , Many years however... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 1056 pages
...Roman Empire.' During his visit to Rome in 1 764, ' as he sat musing amidst the rums 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 f.rst started to his mind.' Many years however... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 542 pages
...Roman Empire. During his visit to Rome in 1 764, ' as he sat musing amids 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. Many years however... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1838 - 724 pages
...Rome," says the great infidel Historian of Christianity, " when 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... | |
 | 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
...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...Jupiter', that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city... | |
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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. 
