 | A. Elley Finch - 1873 - 168 Seiten
...the people ' still in the bondage of ignorance, therein agreeing with the historian Gibbon : — ' I have sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of...old superstition to the contempt of the blind and anatic multitude.' — Gibbon's Autobiography, p. 126. D 2 did more than explode the belief expressed... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 Seiten
...his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments". Og han tilfeicr: BI have sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of the dead, in which Lncian, Erasmus, and Voltaire should mutually acknowledge the danger of exposing an old superstition... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 Seiten
...his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments. I have sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of...to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude. A swarm of emigrants of both sexes, who escaped from the public ruin, has been attracted by the vicinity,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1890 - 582 Seiten
...of the ' Corruptions of Christianity.' ' 1 have sometimes thought,' he says in his Autobiography, ' of writing a ' Dialogue of the Dead,' in which Lucian,...should mutually acknowledge the danger of exposing a popular creed to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude.' Like Cotta in Cicero's Dialogue,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1890 - 590 Seiten
...of the ' Corruptions of Christianity.' ' I have sometimes thought,' he says in his Autobiography, ' of writing a ' Dialogue of the Dead,' in which Lucian,...should mutually acknowledge the danger of exposing a popular creed to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude.' Like Cotta in Cicero's Dialogue,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 Seiten
...his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for Church establishments. I have sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of...to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude. A swarm of emigrants of both sexes who escaped from the public ruin has been attracted by the vicinity,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 Seiten
...his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for Church establishments. I have sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of...to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude. A swarm of emigrants of both sexes who escaped from the public ruin has been attracted by the vicinity,... | |
 | 1895 - 416 Seiten
...his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments. I have sometimes thought of writing a Dialogue of...to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude. O STORMY people, unsad and ever untrue, Ay undiscreet, and changing as a vane, Delighting ever in rumble... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1895 - 246 Seiten
...his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments. I have sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of...to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude. A swarm of emigrants of both sexes, who escaped from the public ruin, has been attracted by the vicinity,... | |
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I have sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of the dead, in which Lucian, Erasmus, and Voltaire should mutually acknowledge the danger of exposing an old superstition to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude. 
