 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.  1785-1824 - Page 194edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...eleven months amongst his old friends, he proceeded to Italy. It was at Rome, as "he sat musing amongst the ruins of the capitol, while the bare-footed friars...writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind." He returned from Italy in 1765, and again entered the militia — to please his father... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...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. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire... | |
 | 1837 - 272 pages
...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. This idea, once suggested, was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pages
...useless to the historian of the Roman Empire. During his visit to Rome in 1 764, ' as he sat musing amids the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars...writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind. Many years however elapsed before he began the composi noli of the ' Decline and Fall.'... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pages
...to the historian of the Roman Empire. During his visit to Rome in 1 764, ' as he sat musing amidsi the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars...writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind. , Many years however elapsed before he began the composi1 lion of the ' Decline and Fall.'... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 pages
...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 the bare-footed friars...the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city tirst started to his mind.' Many years however elapsed before he began the composition of the ' Decline... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 pages
...historian of the Roman Empire.' During his visit to Rome in 1 764, ' as he sat musing amidst the rums of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were...the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city f.rst started to his mind.' Many years however elapsed before he began the composition of the ' Decline... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1838 - 724 pages
...friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, (now the church of the Franciscan friars,) that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind." To a man destitute of the sound religious knowledge which is inseparable from true piety,... | |
 | 1838 - 512 pages
...ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were .tinging vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the City first started to his mind This idea, once suggested, was never abandoned ; and though other avocations prevented... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...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."* In the same manner, we have often thought, every work which we call a work of genius... | |
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