 | 1838 - 1056 pagine
...historian of the 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... | |
 | 1839 - 764 pagine
...or enjoyed, before he could descend to a cool and minute investigaton. ' It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, now the church of the Zocolants, or Franciscans, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 pagine
...or enjoyed, before he could descend to a cool and minute investigaton. ' It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...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 - 1839 - 486 pagine
...those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter2, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pagine
...known will not accuse 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...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 pagine
...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 - 382 pagine
...those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...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 rather than of the empire... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pagine
...those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...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 rather than of the empire... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 386 pagine
...those to whom I. am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pagine
...caused his reputation and occupied a great part of his life. " It was at Rome," says he, " the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted monks were chanting vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that for the first time I was struck with the... | |
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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 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. 
