 | Biography - 1838 - 482 pages
...trace the links which connected what he had read with what he saw ; and it was when he was musing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars...the Decline and Fall of the City first started to his mind. This idea, once suggested, was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented him... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 pages
...Gibbon, " on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sate musing amidst " the ruins of the Capitol, whilst the barefooted friars were " singing vespers in the...and Fall of the city first started to my " mind." XC. How much of life is lost ! The entire sentiment is from Pliny : while gazing on the same scenes... | |
 | Biography - 1838 - 512 pages
...and it was when he was musing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were .tinging vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of...the Decline and Fall of the City first started to his mind This idea, once suggested, was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented him... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 pages
...own words, ' useless to the historian of the Roman Empire. During his visit to Rome in 17C4, 'as he 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 tirst started to his mind.' Many years however... | |
 | 1839 - 764 pages
...he says, were lost or enjoyed, before he could descend to a cool and minute investigaton. ' It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, now the church of the Zocolants, or Franciscans, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...but, in this sketch, those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing...bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter2, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 pages
...he says, were lost or enjoyed, before he could descend to a cool and minute investigaton. ' It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing...bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jnpiter, now the church of the Zocolants. or Franciscans, that the idea of writing the decline and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1?64, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter3, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...but in this sketch, those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing...circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire ; and though my reading and reflections began to point towards that object, some years... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 pages
...but in this sketch, those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing...circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire ; and though my reading and reflections began to point towards that object, some years... | |
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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. 
