 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 páginas
...theme before. "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, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." So too the history... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1861 - 340 páginas
...in directing it to suitable employment. Had not Gibbon sat " musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter," the idea of the " decline and fall of the city " might not have " started in his mind." Many an author... | |
 | 1862 - 1156 páginas
...Rome, (says Gibbon) 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." How differently would... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 páginas
...says : — "It was at Rome, on the 15th 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. But my original plan... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 páginas
...circumstances in which the great resolve was made : — " As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind." The same man, Edward... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 538 páginas
...zerland, and Italy; ting France, S\vitnd it was while he at 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.... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 páginas
...circumstances in which the great resolve was made : — "As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind." The same man, Edward... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1862 - 478 páginas
...One can quite understand Gibbon's statement, that " 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 first started to his mind." That was in 1764,... | |
 | David Pryde - 1862 - 160 páginas
...some great historical work, and as he sat one evening, amid the ruins of the City of the Csesars, " while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter," the subject of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was suggested. When all the volumes of 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 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. 
