 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 812 sivua
...Oct. 1764, as I sat mnsing amid the ruins of the capitol, while 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 544 sivua
...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." Father Malebranche having completed his studies in philosophy and theology... | |
 | Sandhurst roy. military coll - 1859 - 672 sivua
...Rome," says Gibbon, "on the loth of October, 1769, as I sat musing amidst the ruius of the Capitol, that the idea of writing the ' Decline and Fall of the City ' first started to my mind." — Newton, when a student at Cambridge, had retired for a time into the... | |
 | 1860 - 656 sivua
...was when he was mus ing in 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 his mind." The motive arising from the hope of LI 00 is not likely to act in the minds... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1860 - 806 sivua
...1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capítol, while 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... | |
 | 1860 - 580 sivua
...was when he was musing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singina vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall or the city first started to his mind." The motive arising from the hope of L.100 is not likely to... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 sivua
...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. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | 1862 - 1156 sivua
...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." How differently would this have -been described by an old Hebrew prophet.... | |
 | William Chambers - 1862 - 150 sivua
...as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted 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 Cccli was to appearance unavailing. In the silent basilica,... | |
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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. 
