 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.  The Eclectic Review - Pągina 135editat per - 1839Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1796 - 816 pągines
...the decline and fall of the city fir.ft ftarcJ to my mind. But my original plan was circurafcribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire; and though my reading and refleflioiis began to point towards that objeft, foir.e years elapfed, and feveral avocations inter*... | |
 | 1796 - 502 pągines
...ruins of the capķtol, while the bare-footed fryars were finging vefpers in the temple of Jupiter», that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city firft ftarted to my mind. But my original plan was circumfcribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pągines
...ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were fmging vefpers in. the Temple of Jupiter *f, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city firft ftartcd to my mind. But my original plan was circumfcribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | 1796 - 982 pągines
...the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were finding vefpers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city ful} llarred to my mind. But my original plan was circumfcribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | 1796 - 746 pągines
...ruins of the capitol, while the bare- footed fryars were (inging vefpors in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city firft llared to my mind. But my original ylan was circumfcribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 pągines
...the ruins of the Cartel, while the bare-footed fryars were fmging vefpers in the Temple of Jupiter*, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city firft flatted to my mind. But my original plan was circumfcribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pągines
...DECLINE AND FALL OF THF, CITY firjl entered . into my mind. But my original plan was circumlcribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire; and though my reading and refleftions began to point towards that objeft, fome years elapfed, and feveral avocations intervened,... | |
 | 1797 - 512 pągines
...ruins of the capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were ringing Vefpers in the temple of Jupiter*, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city firft ftarted to my mind. Bat my original plan was circumfcribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | John Blair Linn - 1802 - 196 pągines
...ruins of the capitol, while the bare-footed friars were tinging vespers in the temple of Jupiter, tb/at the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." No more are heard the precepts of her sage ; Nor treads Euripides his moral stage; Her orators, her... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pągines
...the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed 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. But my orignal plan was circumscribed to the dtcav of the city rather than of the empire : and, though my... | |
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