The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1George Bell and Sons, 1891 |
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Side iii
... Religion , lowers him in our confidence and esteem . It is not , therefore , surprising that some should shrink from reading , and some from recommending a writer , who , according to the observation of the keen and unprejudiced critic ...
... Religion , lowers him in our confidence and esteem . It is not , therefore , surprising that some should shrink from reading , and some from recommending a writer , who , according to the observation of the keen and unprejudiced critic ...
Side iv
... religion , and such as called in question the accuracy of facts , or the fairness of deductions , in other portions of his history . We may be permitted to express a doubt whether , on all occasions , a due distinction was observed ...
... religion , and such as called in question the accuracy of facts , or the fairness of deductions , in other portions of his history . We may be permitted to express a doubt whether , on all occasions , a due distinction was observed ...
Side v
... religion demanded their services , as well as on other parts which either required correction , or admitted of extension , or , from apparent inconsistency , called for explanation . M. Guizot in the preface to his translation , gives a ...
... religion demanded their services , as well as on other parts which either required correction , or admitted of extension , or , from apparent inconsistency , called for explanation . M. Guizot in the preface to his translation , gives a ...
Side vi
... religious restraint , and which fancies that the powers of reason are insulted because God himself wishes to guide or employ them . It is said that in society Gibbon did not attempt to display his great learning ostentatiously ; that he ...
... religious restraint , and which fancies that the powers of reason are insulted because God himself wishes to guide or employ them . It is said that in society Gibbon did not attempt to display his great learning ostentatiously ; that he ...
Side vii
... religion of Greece and Rome - the origin and growth of two other religions , which have shared between them the fairest provinces of earth - the old age of the ancient world - the spectacle of its expiring glory and moral degeneracy ...
... religion of Greece and Rome - the origin and growth of two other religions , which have shared between them the fairest provinces of earth - the old age of the ancient world - the spectacle of its expiring glory and moral degeneracy ...
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