 | Mystery - 1850 - 464 sider
...scandal that the introduction, or at least the abuse, of christianity had some influence on the decline and fall of the Roman empire. The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusilanimity ; the active virtues of society were discouraged, and the last remains of military spirit... | |
 | 1854 - 788 sider
...scandal, that the introduction, or at least the abuse, of Christianity had some influence on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. The clergy successfully...specious demands of charity and devotion ; and the soldier's pay was lavished on the useless multitudes of both sexes who could only plead the merits... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 672 sider
...scandal, that the introduction, or at least the abuse, of Christianity had some influence on the decline and fall of the Roman empire. The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience afid pusillanimity : the active virtues of society were discouraged ; and the last remains of military... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 680 sider
...scandal, that the introduction, or at least the abuse, of Christianity had some influence on the decline and fall of the Roman empire. The clergy successfully...and devotion ; and the soldiers' pay was lavished oft the useless multitudes of both sexes, who could only plead the merits of abstinence and chastity.*... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 sider
...scanda^ that the introduction, or at least the abuse, of Christianity, had some influence on the decline and fall of the Roman empire. The clergy successfully...remains of military spirit were buried in the cloister," etc. (The Decline, iv., 162). " The monks were more expensive and more numerous than the soldiers of... | |
 | Bernard Marie Dupriez - 1991 - 572 sider
...or scandal that the introduction, or at least the abuse, of Christianity had some influence on the fall of the Roman empire. The clergy successfully...remains of military spirit were buried in the cloister' (Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, as quoted in G. Seldes, The Great Thoughts,... | |
 | Walter Goffart, Walter A. Goffart - 1998 - 412 sider
...antiquity was seldom so anxious to bless the arms of the warrior. Gibbon's characterization is famous: 'The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of...last remains of military spirit were buried in the cloister.'1 Gibbon's judgment can be disputed or qualified, but one must agree that the earliest Christians... | |
 | Theresa C. Noonan - 1999 - 146 sider
...the decline and fall of the Roman empire. The clergy successfully preached the doctrine of patience; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and...of public and private wealth was consecrated to the ... demands of charity and devotion. . . . According to this excerpt from Gibbon, what were two causes... | |
 | Neville Morley - 2000 - 260 sider
...scandal, that the introduction, or at least the abuse, of Christianity, had some influence on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. The clergy successfully...last remains of military spirit were buried in the cloyster: a large portion of public and private wealth was consecrated to the specious demands of charity... | |
 | J. Comras - 68 sider
...the abuse of Christianity had "some influence on the decline and fall of the Roman empire" because "A large portion of public and private wealth was consecrated to the . 6. D. "The Church (and even the State) was distracted by repressive religious factions, whose conflicts... | |
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As the happiness of a, future life is the great object of religion, we may hear without surprise or scandal that the introduction, or at least the abuse of Christianity, had some influence on the decline and fall of the Roman empire. The clergy successfully... 
