 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 páginas
...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. But my original plan was circumscribed to... | |
 | 1849 - 822 páginas
...investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th October 1764, as I eat musing amidst the ruins of the Capítol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing this Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed... | |
 | 1849 - 602 páginas
...investigation. It was at Rome on the 15th October, 1764, as I sat miihingamids the ruins of the Capitol, while e hope they will permit us to remind them that it is the silly slander of this Decline and Fall ol the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed... | |
 | 1849 - 844 páginas
...investigation. It was at Rome, on the 1 >(h October 1764, as I eat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing this Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1849 - 544 páginas
...on the Study of Literature. More than two years were next spent in visiting France, Switzerland, and Italy; and it was while he sat musing among the ruins of the Capitol, and the borefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple 'of Jupiter, that the idea of writing a history... | |
 | 1849 - 812 páginas
...investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th October 1764, ns I sat musing amidst the ruina of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that tho idea of writing this Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan... | |
 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 páginas
...was at Borne, 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 entered my mind." Happy infirmity of purpose, which had such... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 páginas
...at Rome, on the 1 5th of October, 1 764, 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 idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June,... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 páginas
...at Rome, on the 1 5th of October, 1 764, 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 idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind. It was on the night of the 27th of June,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1854 - 540 páginas
...on the Study of Literature. More than two years were next spent in visiting France, Switzerland, ana Italy; and it was while he sat musing among the ruins of the Capitol, and the "surefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing a history... | |
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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. 
