 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...subject and in the conduct of his work. " It was," says Gibbon, " 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."* In the same manner,... | |
 | Biography - 1838 - 482 pages
...links which connected what he had read with what he saw ; and it was when he was musing in 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 his mind. This idea, once... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1838 - 724 pages
...worship."f " It was at Rome," says the great infidel Historian of Christianity, " when musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, (now the church of the Franciscan friars,) that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1839 - 850 pages
...minute investigaton. ' 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 Jnpiter, now the church of the Zocolants. or Franciscans, that the idea of writing the decline and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...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 the 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 - Literature - 1840 - 382 pages
...framing my own panegyric. 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. But my original... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...framing my own panegyric. 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. But my original... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - Literature - 1840 - 386 pages
...framing my own panegyric. 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 Jupiter3, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my... | |
 | Francis Alexander Durivage - Chronology, Historical - 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,... | |
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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. 
