 | 1776 - 586 sider
...the Chriftians, in the courfe of their inteftine difleniions, ha»e inflicted far greater feverities on each other, than they had experienced from the...infidels. During the ages of ignorance which followed the fubverfion of the Roman empire in the Weft, th: biihops of the imperial city extended their dominion... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 530 sider
...without hesita- ' — » — ' tion or inquiry, all that history has recorded, or ° L devotion has feigned, on the subject of martyrdoms, it must still...that the Christians, in the course of their intestine dissentions, have inflicted far greater severities on each other, than they had experienced from the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 474 sider
...that even admitting, without hesitation or enquiry, all that history has recorded, or devotion has feigned, on the subject of martyrdoms, it must still...infidels. During the ages of ignorance which followed tained forty-eight provinces. As the ancient distinctions of nations were long since abolished, the... | |
 | George Croly - 1827 - 344 sider
...Gibbon,* " by a melancholy truth, that the Christians, in the course of their intestine divisions, have inflicted far greater severities on each other,...than they had experienced from the zeal of infidels. The Church of Rome defended by violence the empire which she had acquired by fraud: a system of peace... | |
 | Philip Allwood - 1829 - 538 sider
...recorded, or devotion " has feigned, on the subject of Martyrdoms," under the pagan Emperors of Rome, " it must " still be acknowledged, that the Christians, in " the course of their intestine divisions, have " inflicted far greater severities on each other, " than they had experienced from... | |
 | William Henry Rowlatt - 1830 - 454 sider
...obliged to admit the assertion of a late celebrated historian, that it is a " melancholy truth, that Christians, in the course of their intestine dissensions,...inflicted far greater severities on each other than they have experienced from the zeal of infidels1 :" it would still remain unquestionable, that it is not... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 sider
...that even admitting, without hesitation or enquiry, all that history has recorded, or devotion has feigned, on the subject of martyrdoms, it must still...acknowledged, that the Christians, in the course of same day. But whoi he proceeds to mention his own tourney into Egypt, hin language insensibly become1*... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 588 sider
...that even admitting, without hesitation or inquiry, all that history has recorded, or devotion has feigned, on the subject of martyrdoms, it must still...in the course of their intestine dissensions, have inflictea far greater severities on each other than they had experienced from the zeal of infidels.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 sider
.... . ... . . „ , , . without hesitation or inquiry, all that history has recorded, or devotion has feigned, on the subject of martyrdoms, it must still...inflicted far greater severities on each other than load us to admire the artful management of the historian. Choosing for the scene of the most exquisite... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1862 - 458 sider
...that, even admitting, without hesitation or inquiry, all that history has recorded, or devotion has feigned, on the subject of martyrdoms, it must still...inflicted far greater severities on each other than lead us to admire the artful management of the historian. Choosing for the scene of the most exquisite... | |
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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... 
