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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. "
Representative Biographies of English Men of Letters - Página 65
editado por - 1909 - 642 páginas
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Curiosities of Literature: And the Literary Character Illustrated

Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 526 páginas
...the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fnara were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City firat started to my mind. Father Malebranche having completed his itudies in philosophy and theology...
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The new American cyclopædia, ed. by G. Ripley and C.A. Dana, Volumen8

American cyclopaedia - 1860 - 806 páginas
...amid the ruins of the capítol, while barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the...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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The North British review

1860 - 600 páginas
...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." So too the history of England was no novel subject to Macaulay. It had been his favourite study from...
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The North British Review, Volúmenes32-33

1860 - 656 páginas
...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 his mind." The motive arising from the hope of LI 00 is not likely to act in the minds of the highest...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volumen57

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1861 - 788 páginas
...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...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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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volúmenes51-52

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 páginas
...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." So too the history of England was no novel subject to Macaulay. It had been his favorite study from...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 páginas
...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...decay of the city rather than of the empire ; and . . . some years elapsed . . . before I was seriously engaged in the execution of that laborious work."...
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The Spiritual Magazine, Volúmenes3-4

1862 - 1156 páginas
...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." How differently would this have -been described by an old Hebrew prophet. After describing in lofty...
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A history of English literature, in a series of biographical sketches

William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 páginas
...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." The same man, Edward Gibbon, has thus described the completion of his great work at Lausanne, when...
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A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical Sketches

William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 páginas
...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." The same man, Edward Gibbon, has thus described the completion of his great work at Lausanne, when...
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