 | 1875 - 448 pages
...vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline 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... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 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... | |
 | 1891 - 184 pages
...city first started to mv mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay or the city, rathsr than of the empire; and though my reading and reflections began to point to that object, some yeara elapsed and several avocations interveaed before I waa seriously engaged... | |
 | 1878 - 1074 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1878 - 1068 pages
...writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed romance, of history and travels. Where a title attracted my eye, without fear or awe I snatched the volu toward that object, some years elapsed, and several avocations intervened, before I was seriously engaged... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 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 sevi-ri avocations intervened, before I was seriously engaged in the execution... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 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... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 pages
...the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed by 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... | |
 | 1883 - 248 pages
...the decline and fall of the city firbt started in my mind. But my original plan teas circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire...reading and reflections began to point towards that subject, some years elapsed and several avocations intervened, before I was seriously engaged in the... | |
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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... 
