...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...

...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. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire...

...eleven months amongst his old friends, he proceeded to Italy. Jt 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...

...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." Gay's " Beggars' Opera" originated in a remark made by Swift to Gay, " What an odd pretty...

...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." It is to be observed that he thought only of the history of the city, not of the empire,...

...seventh book in the second ehelf on the right hand aa you go in.' friars were singing vespers, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to his mind.' Our visit to Ara Cœli was to appearance unavailing. In the silent basilica, there were...

...therefore, to find him add : — One can quite understand Gibbon's statement, that aa he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars...the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city firs started to his mind. This is pretty good ; but what follows, if less broad, is more naive : —...

...bright sun, and returning from the Coliseum to the Capitol, where, as he sat " musing amidst its ruins, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in...Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the Decline and Pall of the city first started to the mind " of Gibbon. Afterwards I visited St. Luke's Academy, containing,...

...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. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire...

...ruins of the Capitol, while the hare-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." Father Malebranche having completed his studies in philosophy and theology without any...