 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 668 sider
...scanty and suspicious materials of ecclesiastical history seldom enable us to dispel the dark cloud that hangs over the first age of the church. The great...the pious Christian, and the fallacious triumph of * In spite of my resolution, Lardner led me to look through the famoui fifteenth and sixteenth chapters... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 602 sider
...scanty and suspicious materials of ecclesiastical history seldom enable us to dispel the dark cloud that hangs over the first age of the church. The great...a shade on the faith which they professed. But the p -\ scandal of the pious Christian, and the fallacious triumph of VOL. II. 1 the Infidel, should cease... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1909 - 664 sider
...andcuitie8 suspicious materials of ecclesiastical history seldom enable us to •Hipel the dark cloud that hangs over the first age of the church. The great law of impartiality too often obliges us I to reveal the imperfections. of the uninspired teachers and believers of the gospel.^ and, to a careless... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 sider
...scanty and suspicious materials of ecclesiastical history seldom enable us to dispel the dark cloud that hangs over the first age of the church. The great...imperfections of the uninspired teachers and believers ol the gospel ; and, to a careless observer, their faults may seem to cast a shade on the faith which... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 sider
...can seldom "dispel the dark cloud that hangs over the first age of the church." On the other hand, "the great law of impartiality too often obliges us...uninspired teachers and believers of the gospel." If the 95 first difficulty is the obscurity of church history, the second is an obligation to reveal... | |
 | Morton Gurewitch - 1994 - 270 sider
...fifteenth chapter, which, together with chapter sixteen, is entitled "The Rise of Christianity." The law of impartiality "too often obliges us to reveal...to cast a shade on the faith which they professed" (181). Gibbon is himself careful not to cast obvious shadows on the Christian faith; but in its doctrinal... | |
 | Stephen Miller - 2001 - 226 sider
...inquiry into the progress and establishment of Christianity" may be disturbing to believers because "the great law of impartiality too often obliges us...the uninspired teachers and believers of the Gospel. . . ,"163 He admired Voltaire's writing, but he thought that Voltaire sometimes let his anti-Christian... | |
 | Robert McQueen Grant - 2004 - 396 sider
...scanty and suspicious materials of ecclesiastical history seldom enable us to dispel the dark cloud that hangs over the first age of the church. The great...Infidel, should cease as soon as they recollect not only hy whom, but likewise to whom, the Divine Revelation was given. The theologian may indulge the pleasing... | |
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The great law of impartiality too often obliges us to reveal the imperfections of the uninspired teachers and believers of the gospel ; and to a careless observer their faults may seem to cast a shade on the faith which they professed. 
