 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...of men and books, and a freedom from domestic prejudices, I will briefly describe the qualifications which I deem most essential to a traveller. He should...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... | |
 | 1839 - 764 pages
...intoxication, 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 pages
...intoxication, 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...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 - 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... | |
 | 1839 - 366 pages
...standing that he says, " he sat musing among the ruins of the Capitol on the 1 5th of October, 1764, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that his first idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire entered his mind." I am therefore... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 pages
...of men and books, and a freedom from domestic prejudices, I will briefly describe the qualifications which I deem most essential to a traveller. He should...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 - 1840 - 564 pages
...«rise, which caused his reputation and occupied a great part of his life. " It was at Rome," says he, " the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the capitol, while the barefooted monks were chanting vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that for the first time I was struck with the... | |
 | Francis Alexander Durivage - 1841 - 794 pages
...work, the Decline and fall of Ulf Raman Empire, at Home, as he sat amidst the ruins of the capítol, " while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter." He died in England, on the 16th of January, 1794, in the 57th year of his age. GIBRALTAR, a rocky promontory,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1842 - 660 pages
...things ! — scarce even amid the ruins of the Capitol itself, on the summit of Ara Coeli, where, " while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter," Gibbon first conceived the mighty project of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ! Indeed, we... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 pages
...the Roman Empire, can forget that, whilst — " It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing that work first started to his mind ;" it was in the garden at Lausanne just referred to, that he terminated... | |
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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 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. 
