 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.  Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure - Side 321796Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 sider
...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 original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 sider
...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 plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 sider
...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 plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 sider
...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 original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | Charles Rockwell - 1842 - 440 sider
...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." Thus originated one of the most learned works that was ever written ; and... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1844 - 830 sider
...bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, now the Church of the Franciscans, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the city first started in my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 sider
...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 plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 sider
...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 plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1846 - 530 sider
...as I sat muting amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-looted frían were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of Ihn City first started to my mind. Father Malebranche having completed his studies in philosophy and... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1846 - 478 sider
...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." To the Romanist, on the contrary, this Church derives its veneration from... | |
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