 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1704, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,7 that the idea of writing the decline and fall... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pages
...and the contents of a vast magazine. " It was at 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 (then a church of the Franciscans), that the idea... | |
 | 1854 - 428 pages
...and the contents of a vast magazine. " It was at 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 (then a church of the Franciscans), that the idea... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...15th of October, 1761, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, vrhile the bare-footed friars were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fell of the city first started to my muid. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the... | |
 | W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 pages
...the ruins of the capital, 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 in 1765, and again entered the militia as lieutenantcolonel commandant... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1857 - 576 pages
...starting-point. It was as Gibbon " sat musing amidst the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter," that...the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind.* It is impossible to read a chapter of his history of Constantino without feeling that he... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1857 - 524 pages
...15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the rums of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fnarn were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fail of thn City first started to my mind. Father Malebranche having completed his studies in philosophy... | |
 | 1857 - 456 pages
...any sketch of Gibbon, however brief: — "It was at Rome," says he, "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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 420 pages
...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 decline and fall of the city first started to his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June, 1 787, that he wrote the last lines of the last... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 526 pages
...liitd of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fnara were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that...the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City firat started to my mind. Father Malebranche having completed his itudies in philosophy and theology... | |
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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. 
