 | Joseph Lomas Towers - 1796 - 518 sider
...Saracens;' Mr. Gibbon fays, ' The • philofophers of Athens and Rome enjoyed the bleffings, ' and aflerted the rights, of civil and religious freedom. • Their...writings might have gradually ' unlocked the fetters of Eaftern defpotifm89, diffufed a • liberal fpirit of inquiry and toleration, and encouraged ' the... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 sider
...orator, or even an historian, being taught to speak the language of the Saracens ;' Mr. Gibbon says, ' The philosophers of Athens and Rome enjoyed the blessings,...might have gradually unlocked the fetters of Eastern despotism89, diffused a liberal spirit of inquiry and toleration, and encouraged the Arabian sages... | |
 | 1808 - 580 sider
...philosophers of Athens enjoyed the blessings, and asserted the rights of civil And religious liberty. Their moral and political writings - might have gradually...liberal spirit of enquiry and toleration, and encouraged theAsiatic sages to suspect, that their prophet was an impostor and their sultan a tyrant. Destitute... | |
 | Charles Edward Trevelyan - 1838 - 270 sider
...Confident in the riches of their native tongue, the Arahians disdained the study of any foreign idiom. The philosophers of Athens and Rome enjoyed the blessings...of eastern despotism, diffused a liberal spirit of inquiry and toleration, and encouraged the Arahian sages to suspect that their caliph was a tyrant,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 sider
...passion, the rhetoric of narrative and argument, the regular fabric of epic and dramatic poetry.71 The influence of truth and reason is of a less ambiguous complexion. 70 Abulpharagius (Dynast, p. 26, 148) mentions a Syrian version of Homer's two poems, by Theophtlus,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1870 - 458 sider
...and passion, the rhetoric of narrative and argument, the regular fabric of epic and dramatic poetry. The influence of truth and reason is of a less ambiguous...of Eastern despotism, diffused a liberal spirit of inquiry and toleration, and encouraged the Arabian sages to suspect that their caliph was a tyrant... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 632 sider
...passion, the rhetoric of narrative and argument, the regular fabric of epic and dramatic poetry.71 The influence of truth and reason is of a less ambiguous...of Eastern despotism, diffused a liberal spirit of inquiry and toleration, and encouraged the Arabian sages to suspect that their caliph was a tyrant,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 640 sider
...passion, the rhetoric of narrative and argument, the regular fabric of epic and dramatic poetry.71 The influence of truth and reason is of a less ambiguous...of Eastern despotism, diffused a liberal spirit of inquiry and toleration, and encouraged the Arabian sages to suspect that their caliph was a tyrant,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 676 sider
...and passion, the rhetoric of narrative and argument, the regular fabric of epic and dramatic poetry." The influence of truth and reason is of a less ambiguous...gradually unlocked the fetters of Eastern despotism, diflused a liberal spirit of inquiry and toleration, and encouraged the Arabian sages to suspect that... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1906 - 612 sider
...and passion, the rhetoric of narrative and argument, the regular fabric of epic and dramatic poetry. The influence of truth and reason is of a less ambiguous...of Eastern despotism, diffused a liberal spirit of inquiry and toleration, and encouraged the Arabian sages to suspect that their caliph was a tyrant,... | |
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The philosophers of Athens and Rome enjoyed the blessings and asserted the rights of civil and religious freedom. Their moral and political writings might have gradually unlocked the fetters of Eastern despotism, diffused a liberal spirit of inquiry and... 
