 | Robert Chambers - 1890 - 848 pages
...temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline ami fall of the city first started into my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay...towards that object, some years elapsed, and several avocation» intervened, l>efore I was seriously engaged in the execution of that laborious work. One... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...the Franciscans], 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...seriously engaged in the execution of that laborious work. . . . It was on the day, or rather night, of the 271)1 of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 pages
...Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing this Decline and Fall of the city first started to my mind. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay...engaged in the execution of that laborious work."— itft, p IM, 8vo edition. Tor., vi. Again the well-known description of the conclusion of his labours:... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 pages
...Franciscan fryars, while they were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter on the ruins of the Capitol.] But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay...years elapsed, and several avocations intervened, RETUKN TO ENGLAND. 271 before I was seriously engaged in the execution of that laborious work. I had... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 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...and though my reading and reflections began to point toward that object, some years elapsed, and several avocations intervened, before I was seriously engaged... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...capital. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire, 3° and though my reading and reflections began to point...seriously engaged in the execution of that laborious work. [GIBBON RETURNS TO ENGLAND.] I had not totally renounced the southern provinces of France, but the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...Franciscan friars, while they were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter on the ruins of the capital. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire, 30 and though my reading and reflections began to point towards that object, some years elapsed and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 pages
...Temple of Jupiter,2 that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.4 But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire,5 and though my reading and reflections began to point towards that object, some years elapsed,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - 1901 - 526 pages
...Franciscan friars, while they were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter on the ruins of the Capital. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire. EDWARD GIBBON : Memoirs, FIFTH READER 34. JULIUS OESAR By Plutarch PLUTARCH, who lived in the latter... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 pages
...of the Capitol, 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...seriously engaged in the execution of that laborious work. We know also with equal precision when the laborious work terminated. I have presumed to mark the moment... | |
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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.... 
