 | 1871 - 550 str.
...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 entered into my mind." "It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 650 str.
...1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruina 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." Publication. — The first volume of The Decline and Fall came out in 1776.... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 str.
...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. But my original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 str.
...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. But my original plan waa circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1873 - 280 str.
...1764, as i sat musing among 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. 3. John gilpin was a citizen, of credit and renown. a trainband captain eke... | |
 | 1873 - 808 str.
...was 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 " first started to my mind." — Gibbon's Memoirs. The two first volumes of his ' Monks of the West... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 str.
...was 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 " first started to my mind.' — G:bboiis Memoirs. The two first volumes of his ' Monks of the West... | |
 | 1875 - 648 str.
...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." Father Malebranche, having completed his studies in philosophy and theology,... | |
 | 1875 - 448 str.
...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 original plan was circumscribed to the decay of the city rather than of the empire : and, though my... | |
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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. 
