 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1900 - 398 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus ttood,* or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye 6 ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation.6 My guide was Mr. Byers, a Scotch antiquary of experience and taste " ; but, in the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 462 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye, and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool or minute investigation." . , * By every motive which can influence a reflecting and responsible being,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1902 - 254 pages
...memorable spot where Eomulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye, and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed...descend to a cool and minute investigation." "It was at Eome," he says, on the 15th of October, 1764, " as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1902 - 238 pages
...memorable spot where Eomulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Cassar fell, was at once present to my eye, and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed...descend to a cool and minute investigation." " It was at Eome," he says, on the 15th of October, 1764, " as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol,... | |
 | Charles Morris - Orators - 1902 - 714 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Csesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool or minute investigation." .... By every motive which can influence a reflecting and responsive being,... | |
 | H. Neville Maugham, Henry Neville Maugham - Architecture - 1903 - 494 pages
...memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool or minute examination." At Naples, Gibbon met Sir William Hamilton, the British Envoy, and later on... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - Classical philology - 1908 - 542 pages
...Lausanne (1783). Four years later the composition of the last two volumes was finished. ' It was at Rome, on the i5th of October, 1764', as he 'sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - Authors, American - 1910 - 442 pages
...memorable spot where Eomulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye ; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed...could descend to a cool and minute investigation. My guide was Mr. Byers, a Scotch antiquary of experience and taste ; but in the daily labor of eighteen... | |
 | EDWIN WATTS CHUBB - 1910 - 426 pages
...memorable spot where Eomulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed...could descend to a cool and minute investigation. My guide was Mr. Byers, a Scotch antiquary of experience and taste; but in the daily labor of eighteen... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - Classical philology - 1915 - 646 pages
...Lausanne (1783). Four years later the composition of the last two volumes was finished. 'It was at Rome, on the i5th of October, 1764', as he ' sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted fryars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of... | |
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After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend... 
