 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 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 mtervened, before I was seriously engaged in the execution... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1887 - 1040 pages
...writing the decline and fafl 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 reflection!* began to point towards that object, some years elapsed, and several avocations intervened,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1890 - 866 pages
...the decline and fall of the city first started into 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 202 203 intervened, before I was seriously engaged in the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...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 - 1891 - 456 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... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 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 years elapsed, and several avocations intervened, before I was seriously engaged in the execution... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 pages
...Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter on the ruins of the Capitol.] 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, RETUKN TO ENGLAND. 271 before I was seriously... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 pages
...Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter on the ruins of the Capitol.] 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 Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 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... 
