The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 2: Complete in Eight VolumesG. Coure and lo. Poultry, 1825 |
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Side 115
... faith acquired a proportionable degree of vigour and purity . The contemporaries of Moses and Joshua had beheld with careless indifference the most amazing mi- racles . Under the pressure of every calamity , the belief of those miracles ...
... faith acquired a proportionable degree of vigour and purity . The contemporaries of Moses and Joshua had beheld with careless indifference the most amazing mi- racles . Under the pressure of every calamity , the belief of those miracles ...
Side 116
... faith of Moses , had never been inculcated as a precept of the law , nor were the Jews inclined to impose it on themselves as a voluntary duty . In the admission of new citizens , that unsocial people was actuated by the selfish vanity ...
... faith of Moses , had never been inculcated as a precept of the law , nor were the Jews inclined to impose it on themselves as a voluntary duty . In the admission of new citizens , that unsocial people was actuated by the selfish vanity ...
Side 119
... who should instruct mankind in a more perfect mode of faith and of worship : that the P These arguments were urged with great ingenuity by the Jew Orobio , and re- Messiah , himself , and his disciples who conversed with CHAP . XV . 119.
... who should instruct mankind in a more perfect mode of faith and of worship : that the P These arguments were urged with great ingenuity by the Jew Orobio , and re- Messiah , himself , and his disciples who conversed with CHAP . XV . 119.
Side 121
... faith , they maintained so intimate a connexion with their impious countrymen , whose misfortunes were attributed by the Pagans to the contempt , and more justly ascribed by the Christians , to the wrath , of the Su- preme Deity . The ...
... faith , they maintained so intimate a connexion with their impious countrymen , whose misfortunes were attributed by the Pagans to the contempt , and more justly ascribed by the Christians , to the wrath , of the Su- preme Deity . The ...
Side 125
... faith as well as reason , they deem themselves secure and invul- nerable behind the ample veil of allegory , which they hostile odium . Tacit . Hist . 5. 4. Surely Tacitus had seen the Jews with too favourable an eye . The perusal of ...
... faith as well as reason , they deem themselves secure and invul- nerable behind the ample veil of allegory , which they hostile odium . Tacit . Hist . 5. 4. Surely Tacitus had seen the Jews with too favourable an eye . The perusal of ...
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