...as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind." The thoughtful traveler, who perambulates the subterranean streets of Pompeii, is filled...

...of form and beauty. How interesting it is to be told by Gibbon, that " it was when he was mus ing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars...the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind." The motive arising from the hope of LI 00 is not likely to act in the minds of the highest...

...Rome," he writes, "on the 15th of Oct. 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capítol, while barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple...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 ; and though...

...the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." So too the history of England was no novel subject to Macaulay. It had been his favourite study from...

...quoting it : 'It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of^the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing...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 : and though...

...the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." So too the history of England was no novel subject to Macaulay. It had been his favorite study from...

...the great source of thought."* Let me give an illustration to mark more distinctly this difference. " It was at Rome, (says Gibbon) on the 15th of October,...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 in lofty...

...religion. Concerning the origin of his celebrated work, he says : — "It was at Rome, on the 15th October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of...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 ; and . ....

...the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind." The same man, Edward Gibbon, has thus described the completion of his great work at Lausanne, when...

...the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind." The same man, Edward Gibbon, has thus described the completion of his great work at Lausanne, when...