 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 492 páginas
...Hill at Rome, as Gibbon himself tells us: " On the fifteenth of October, 1764, as he sat musing amid the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind." Why is Pompeii... | |
 | 1849 - 844 páginas
...could descend to a cool and minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 1 >(h October 1764, as I eat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the...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
...to a cool and minute investigation. It was at Rome on the 15th October, 1764, as I sat miihingamids nclined to take umbrage at it, we 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 páginas
...October 15th, 1764, and is immortalised in his own picturesque words : " As I sat musing," he says, " amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." But so gigantic a task... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 páginas
...Rome, October 15th, 1764, and is immortalised in his own picturesque words: "As I sat musing," he says, "amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of 286 OUTLINES or GENERAL LITERATURE. [CHAP. xv. Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of... | |
 | 1849 - 812 páginas
...and minute 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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 páginas
...or enjoyed, before I could descend to a cool aud minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of...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... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 páginas
...on closing the work. GIBBON'S ACCOUNT OF THE COMMENCEMENT AND CONCLUSION OF HIS GREAT WORK. IN Rome, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. * * * * It was on the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 páginas
...choice was determined by an incident of a striking and romantic nature. ' As I sat musing,' he says, ' amidst the ruins of the Capitol, 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 my mind.' Many years, however,... | |
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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. 
