 | sir John Bowring - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...Kome," he says, " on the 15th of October, 1761, as I sat musing amid 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." The next year he returned home, renewing... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 1068
...It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while eady passed her fortieth year, was left destitute. Her noble spirit scorned the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 216
..." It was at Borne, on the 15th October, 1764, as I sat musing amid 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." The scene, the contrast of the old religion... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...informs us, on the 1 5th of October in that year, as he sat musing among the ruins of the capitol, 'while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter,' that his idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the Koman Empire entered his mind. He had previously thought... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 726
...It was at Rome, on the isth 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. But my original plan was circumscribed to... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...have to contend both in Europe and 1 " It was 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 ' first started to my mind." — Gibbon's Memoirs. America with the whole weight... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 694
...It was at Rome, on the i5th 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. But my original plan was circumscribed to... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...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 f.all of the city first started to my mind. — G'lbbon. 6. And I have loved thee,... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...It was at Rome, on the isth 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. He did little towards the fulfilment of... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...says Gibbon, " on the loth of October, 1761, 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 writmg the Decline and Fall of the City first started to my mind." Father Malebranchs having completed... | |
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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. 
