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... hand . The near approach of this wonderful event had been predicted by the apostles ; the tradi- tion of it was preserved by their earliest disciples , and those who understood in their literal sense the discourses of Christ himself ...
... hand . The near approach of this wonderful event had been predicted by the apostles ; the tradi- tion of it was preserved by their earliest disciples , and those who understood in their literal sense the discourses of Christ himself ...
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... hands less pure than those of the apostles , would too soon have been corrupted and abused by the returning selfishness of human nature ; and the converts who em- braced the new religion were permitted to retain the possession of their ...
... hands less pure than those of the apostles , would too soon have been corrupted and abused by the returning selfishness of human nature ; and the converts who em- braced the new religion were permitted to retain the possession of their ...
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... hands of Demetrius , and the number was increased to twenty [ 233-249 ] by his successor Heraclas . 165 The body of the natives , a people In Rome distinguished by a sullen inflexibility of temper , 166 entertained the new doctrine with ...
... hands of Demetrius , and the number was increased to twenty [ 233-249 ] by his successor Heraclas . 165 The body of the natives , a people In Rome distinguished by a sullen inflexibility of temper , 166 entertained the new doctrine with ...
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... hands of an orthodox em- peror . 179 Before that time the various accidents of war and commerce might indeed diffuse an imperfect knowledge of the gospel among the tribes of Caledonia , 180 and among the borderers of the Rhine , the ...
... hands of an orthodox em- peror . 179 Before that time the various accidents of war and commerce might indeed diffuse an imperfect knowledge of the gospel among the tribes of Caledonia , 180 and among the borderers of the Rhine , the ...
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... hands . Aristotle and Theophrastus are the objects of their admiration ; and they express an uncommon reverence for the works of Galen . Their errors are derived from the abuse of the arts and sciences of the infidels , and they corrupt ...
... hands . Aristotle and Theophrastus are the objects of their admiration ; and they express an uncommon reverence for the works of Galen . Their errors are derived from the abuse of the arts and sciences of the infidels , and they corrupt ...
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Side 454 - Whilst Alypius, assisted by the governor of the province, urged, with vigour and diligence, the execution of the work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned.
Side 140 - Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little streams, pours into the harbour a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the...
Side 131 - The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses, that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
Side 31 - Their serious and sequestered life, averse to the gay luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. As the greater number were of some trade or profession, it was incumbent on them, by the strictest integrity and the fairest dealing, to remove the suspicions which the profane are too apt to conceive against the appearances of sanctity. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience.
Side 83 - With this view," continues Tacitus,^ " he inflicted the most exquisite tortures on those men who, under the vulgar appellation of Christians, were already branded with deserved infamy. They derived their name and origin from Christ, who, in the reign of Tiberius, had suffered death by the sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilate.
Side 68 - It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced the immediate effects, or received the earliest intelligence, of the prodigy. Each of these philosophers, in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phenomena of nature — earthquakes, meteors, comets, and eclipses — which his indefatigable curiosity could collect. Both the one and the other have omitted to mention the greatest phenomenon to which the mortal . eye has been witness since the creation of...
Side xvi - Our curiosity is naturally prompted to inquire by what means the Christian faith obtained so remarkable a victory over the established religions of the earth. To this inquiry an obvious but satisfactory answer may be returned ; that it was owing to the convincing evidence of the doctrine itself, and to the ruling providence of its great Author.
Side 134 - We shall conclude this chapter by a melancholy truth which obtrudes itself on the reluctant mind ; that even admitting, without hesitation or inquiry, all that history has recorded, or devotion lias feigned, on the subject of martyrdoms, it must still be acknowledged that the Christians, in the course of their intestine dissensions, have inflicted far greater severities on each other than they had experienced from the zeal of infidels.
Side 168 - The noble art, which had once been preserved as the sacred inheritance of the patricians, was fallen into the hands of freedmen and plebeians, who, with cunning rather than with skill, exercised a sordid and pernicious trade. Some of them procured admittance into families for the purpose of fomenting differences, of encouraging suits, and of preparing a harvest of gain for themselves or their brethren. Others, recluse in their chambers, maintained the dignity of legal professors, by furnishing a...
Side 18 - A doctrine thus removed beyond the senses and the experience of mankind might serve to amuse the leisure of a philosophic mind, or in the silence of solitude it might sometimes impart a ray of comfort to desponding virtue, but the faint impression which had been received in the schools was soon obliterated by the commerce and business of active life. We are sufficiently acquainted...