 | 1851 - 372 sider
...limits of the visible world, were the principal causes which favoured the establishment of polytheism. So urgent on the vulgar is the necessity of believing,...its success was not still more rapid and still more universal. It has been observed, with truth as well as propriety, that the conquests of Rome prepared... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 sider
...but equally susceptible and desirous of a devout attachment, an object much less deserving would hare been sufficient to fill the vacant place in their...its success was not still more rapid and still more universal. It has been observed, with truth as well as propriety, that the conquests of Rome prepared... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1868 - 468 sider
...interposed a genuine revelation, fitted to inspire the most rational esteem and conviction, while, at the same time, it was adorned with all that could...its success was not still more rapid and still more universal."* * Decline and Fall, vol. i., p. 280, 281. (3.) The new system contained statements on... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 sider
...limits of the visible world, were the principal causes which favoured the establishment of Polytheism. So urgent on the vulgar is the necessity of believing,...progress of Christianity, will perhaps be surprised its success was not still more rapid and still more universal. 3. At Lausanne — the last lines of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 716 sider
...not interposed a genuine revelation fitted to inspire the most rational esteem and conviction, while at the same time it was adorned with all that could...its success was not still more rapid and still more universal. It has been observed with truth as well as propriety that the conquests of Home prepared... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 602 sider
...deities of a more recent and fashionable cast might soon have occupied the deserted temples of Jupiter I and Apollo, if, in the decisive moment, the wisdom...its success was not still more rapid and still more universal. •aw^M It has been observed, with truth as well as propriety, that najtln "I*? the conquests... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 sider
...limits of the visible world, were the principal causes which favored the establishment of Polytheism. So urgent on the vulgar is the necessity of believing,...its success was not still more rapid and still more universal.* * Gibbon has here glanced at what he ought to have made the first and chief natural cause... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 sider
...limits of the visible world, were the principal causes which favoured the establishment of Polytheism. So urgent on the vulgar is the necessity of believing,...its success was not still more rapid and still more universal. It has been observed, with truth as well as propriety, that the conquests of Rome prepared... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1879 - 451 sider
...interposed a genuine revelation, fitted to inspire the most rational esteem and conviction, while, at the same time, it was adorned with all that could...its success was not still more rapid and still more universal."* * Decline and Fall, vol. i., p. 280, 281. (3.) The new system contained statements on... | |
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... superstition. Some deities of a more recent and fashionable cast might soon have occupied the deserted temples of Jupiter and Apollo, if, in the decisive moment, the wisdom of Providence had not interposed a genuine revelation, fitted to inspire the... 