 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 páginas
...qualifications ; but in this sketch, those to whom I. am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I...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... | |
 | Charles Rockwell - 1842 - 440 páginas
...in place of that of the former deity. It is this church of which Gibbon speaks, when he says, — " It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I...decline and fall of the city, first started to my mind." Thus originated one of the most learned works that was ever written ; and when we consider that it... | |
 | 1843 - 602 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 588 páginas
...remarks, " It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as Ï sat musing amidst the ruins of the capital, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in...Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of tho city first started to my mina." After devoting six weeks to tho tour of Naples, he returned to... | |
 | 1849 - 600 páginas
...or enjoyed, before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 15th October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of...in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing this Decline and Fall ol the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 páginas
...qualifications : but, in this sketch, those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I...circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire : and, though my reading and reflections began to point towards that object, some years... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 páginas
...qualifications : but, in this sketch, those to whom I am known will not accuse me of framing my own panegyric. It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I...circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire : and, though my reading and reflections began to point towards that object, some years... | |
 | 1849 - 844 páginas
...could descend to a cool and minute investigation. It was at Rome, on the 1 >(h October 1764, as I eat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the...in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing this Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed... | |
 | 1849 - 602 páginas
...to a cool and minute investigation. It was at Rome on the 15th October, 1764, as I sat miihingamids nclined to take umbrage at it, we hope they will permit...us to remind them that it is the silly slander of this Decline and Fall ol the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed... | |
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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 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. 
