 | William Simpson - 2005 - 368 páginas
...1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of that city first started to my mind.' Whether it be Charlemagne or Mary Queen of Scots, the bodyline... | |
 | Fred R. Shapiro - 2006 - 1092 páginas
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 | Rosalie Hook - 2006 - 360 páginas
...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" (Gibbon 85). 52. santissimo Bamhino: Dickens irreverently called this sanctified... | |
 | R. B. Mowat - 2006 - 352 páginas
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 | Dominic Head - 2006 - 1241 páginas
...Rome ... as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while barefoot 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.' He had, meanwhile, been 434 producing a mass of miscellaneous reviews and... | |
 | Harold James - 2006 - 192 páginas
...the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in the temple of lupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind.6 This retrospective account is wrong, however, not just pedantically (the... | |
 | Louis Armand - 2007 - 428 páginas
...1764, as I sat musing midst the ruins of the Capitol while the barefooted fryars 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." Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of my Life and Writings, ed. Henry Morley (London:... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - 2007 - 370 páginas
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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. 
