 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...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...and reflections began to point towards that object, some years elapsed, and several avocations intervened, before I was seriously engaged in the execution... | |
 | 1849 - 822 pages
...this 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...and reflections began to point towards that object, some yean elapsed, and several avocations intervened, before I was seriously engaged in the execution... | |
 | 1849 - 844 pages
...this 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;...and reflections began to point towards that object, some yean elapsed, and several avocations intervened, before I was seriously engaged in the execution... | |
 | 1849 - 602 pages
...this Decline and Fall ol the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed smiline cheek ; A goodly apple, rotten at the heart....Merchant of Venice., The prince who is gontle as a toward that object, some years elapsed, and sever.il avocations intervened, before I was seriously... | |
 | 1849 - 812 pages
...this 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 ; and though my reading and reflections begun to point towards that object, some years elapsed, and several avocationsintervened, before I... | |
 | James Roche - 1850 - 572 pages
...Decline and Fall of the city," first started to his mind. His original plan, he adds, was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire; and Lord Brougham sharply condemns this deviation from his early intention, though, until 1452, and the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...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...and reflections began to point towards that object, some years elapsed, and several avocations intervened, before I was seriously engaged in the execution... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pages
...•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...and reflections began to point towards that object, some years elapsed, and several avocations intervened, before I was seriously engaged in the execution... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...first started to my muid. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather thai of the empire, and though my reading and reflections began to point towards that object, some years elapsed, and several avocations intervened, before I was seriously engaged in the execution... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 pages
...•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...and though my reading and reflections began to point toward that object, some years elapsed, and several avocations intervened, before I was seriously engaged... | |
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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 was circumscribed... 
