 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1859 - 530 pages
...eminent geniuses to display their powers. " It was at Rome," says Gibbon, " on the 15th of October, I76i, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 544 pages
...geniuses to display their powers. " It was at Bome," says Gibbon, " on the 15th of October, 176-1, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while...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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...: " It was at Rome, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, on the 15th of October, 1764, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in...and fall' of the city first started to my mind. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven or twelve,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 1008 pages
...Rome," he writes, " on the 15th of Oct. 1764-, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capítol, while barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple...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 of the empire ; and though... | |
 | Sandhurst roy. military coll - 1859 - 672 pages
...Rome," says Gibbon, "on the loth of October, 1769, as I sat musing amidst the ruius of the Capitol, that the idea of writing the ' Decline and Fall of the City ' first started to my mind." — Newton, when a student at Cambridge, had retired for a time into the country. As he was reading... | |
 | David W. Belisle - 1859 - 450 pages
...as he sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind." The thoughtful traveler, who perambulates the subterranean streets of Pompeii, is filled... | |
 | 1860 - 660 pages
...of form and beauty. How interesting it is to be told by Gibbon, that " it was when he was mus ing in the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars...the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind." The motive arising from the hope of LI 00 is not likely to act in the minds of the highest... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1860 - 806 pages
...Rome," he writes, "on the 15th of Oct. 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the capítol, while barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple...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 of the empire ; and though... | |
 | 1860 - 600 pages
...the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind." So too the history of England was no novel subject to Macaulay. It had been his favourite study from... | |
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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 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. 
