 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.  The Eclectic Review - 135 ページ 編集 - 1839全文表示 - この書籍について
 | B. Lambert - 1806 - 624 ページ
...musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, that the idea of his great work first started into his mind. His original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather -than of the empire, but he was for some years prevented from carrying even this contracted plan into execution. In June,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 ページ
...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 Mallebranche having compleated his studies in philosophy, and theology, without any other intention... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1813 - 532 ページ
...finging vefpers in the temple of Jupiter (now the church of the Zoccolants, or Francifcan friars), that the idea of writing the DECLINE and FALL of the city firft ftarted to his mind." But this appears to have been merely the effect of local emotion. His plan... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 ページ
...were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter (now the church of the Zoccolants, or Franciscan friars) that the idea of writing the DECLINE and FALL of the city first started to his mind." But this appears to have been merely the effect of local emotion, for his plan wasi then... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 ページ
...were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter (now the church of the Zoccolants, or Franciscan friarS) that the idea of writing the DECLINE and FALL of the city first started to his mind." But this appears to have been merely the effect of local emotion, for his plan was then... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 ページ
...eiBBON's WORKS. vespers in the Temple of Jupiter (DOW the Church of Tocculants or Franciscan Friars) that the idea of writing The Decline and Fall of the City first started into my mind!" Upon his return to England, the ensuing year, he felt regret that he was not occupied... | |
 | 1840 - 772 ページ
...ruins of the Capitol, while the hare- footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the Decline and Fall of the City first started into my mind. — P. 184. And this, too, it has heen conjectured, was the moment which fixed him in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 ページ
...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." After devoting six weeks to the tour of Naples, he returned to his own country : the succeeding five... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 538 ページ
...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 without any other intention... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 ページ
...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...my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of tbe city rather than of the empire : ard, though my reading and reflections began to point towards... | |
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