| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1783 - 524 pages
...ISJ, a man of genius and learning, who preferred his moderation amidft the fury of contending fects, and who compofed the annals of his own age and country,...fubmit our belief to the authority of Grotius, it muft be allowed, that the number of Proteftants, who were executed in a fingle province and a fingle... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1787 - 502 pages
...1f!, a man of genius and learning, who preferved his moderation amMft trR- fury of contending fects , and who compofed the annals of his own age and country...are obliged to fubmit our belief to the authority of Ciotius, it muft be allowed, that the number of Pioreftants , who were executed in a fingle province... | |
| Joseph Lomas Towers - Bible - 1808 - 346 pages
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country, at a time when...printing had facilitated the means of intelligence, and increased the danger of detection".' Father Paul, however, it is proper to state, reduces these Belgic... | |
| Joseph Cradock - France - 1828 - 430 pages
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country at a time when...printing had facilitated the means of intelligence, and increased the danger of detection." — GIBBON. Bignon was born at Paris 1590, and died in the 67 th... | |
| Joseph Cradock - France - 1828 - 440 pages
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country at a time when...printing had facilitated the means of intelligence, and increased the danger of detection." — GIBBON. Bignon was born at Paris 1590, and died in the 6yth... | |
| Philip Allwood - Bible - 1829 - 538 pages
...and learning; who " preserved his moderation amidst the fury of " contending sects; and who composed the annals " of his own age and country, at a time,...printing had facilitated the " means of intelligence, and increased the danger " of detection a ." Making allowance for those unhappy prejudices against Christianity,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1843 - 588 pages
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidít the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country, at a time when...the invention of printing had facilitated the means oí intelligence, and increased the danger of detection. If we are obliged to submit our belief to... | |
| John David Macbride - 1848 - 1080 pages
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the Annals of his own age and country, at a time when...printing had facilitated the means of intelligence, and increased the danger of detection." Even allowing much exaggeration, we may at least suppose the number... | |
| 1851 - 372 pages
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country at a time when...printing had facilitated the means of intelligence, and increased the danger of detection. If we are obliged to submit our belief to the authority of Grotius,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pages
...genius and learning, who preserved his moderation amidst the fury of contending sects, and who composed the annals of his own age and country at a time when...printing had facilitated the means of intelligence and increased the danger of detection. If we are obliged to submit our belief to the authority of Grotius,... | |
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