It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the… — Edward Gibbon
It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars 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.
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Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life, edited by Betty Radice. Penguin, 1984.
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Gibbon, Edward. "Memoirs of My Life and Writings." Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, edited by John Sheffield. Vol. 1, London: A Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. David, 1796.
