 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...writing the decline and fall of the city firft ftartcd to my mind. But my original plan was circumfcribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire...and reflections began to point towards that object, fome years elapfed, and feveral avocations intervened, before I was ferioufly engaged in the execution... | |
 | 1796 - 502 pages
...writing the decline and fall of the city firft ftarted to my mind. But my original plan was circumfcribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire...and, though my reading and reflections began to point toward that abject, fome years elapfec?, and feveral avocations intervened, before I was ferioufly... | |
 | 1796 - 816 pages
...the decline and fall of the city fir.ft ftarcJ to my mind. But my original plan was circurafcribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire; and though my reading and refleflioiis began to point towards that objeft, foir.e years elapfed, and feveral avocations inter*... | |
 | 1796 - 746 pages
...firft llared to my mind. But my original ylan was circumfcribed to the decay of the city rather than ot the empire ; and though my reading and reflections began to point towards that object, fome years elapfed, and fcveral avocations intervened, before i was ferioufly engaged in the execution... | |
 | 1796 - 982 pages
...llarred to my mind. But my original plan was circumfcribed to the decay of the city rather than of-the empire : and, though my reading and reflections began to point towards that object, fome years elapfed, and feveral avocations intervened, before I was ferioudy engaged in the execution... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pages
...DECLINE AND FALL OF THF, CITY firjl entered . into my mind. But my original plan was circumlcribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire; and though my reading and refleftions began to point towards that objeft, fome years elapfed, and feveral avocations intervened,... | |
 | 1797 - 512 pages
...writing the decline and fall of the city firft ftarted to my mind. Bat my original plan was circumfcribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire ; and, though my reading and rerleftions began to point toward that objeft, fome .years elapfed, and feveral avocations intervened... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. But my orignal plan was circumscribed to the dtcav of the city rather than of the empire : and, though...intervened, before I was seriously engaged in the excution of that laborious work. impatience. Rome and Italy had satiated my curious appetite, and I... | |
 | B. Lambert - 1806 - 624 pages
...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,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...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...intervened, before I was seriously engaged in the execution ofthat laborious work. I had not totally renounced the southern provinces of France, but the letters... | |
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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.... 
