 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 Seiten
...his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments.3 I have sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of...superstition to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude.4 A swarm of emigrants of both sexes, who escaped from the public ruin, has been attracted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 Seiten
...politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his rever" ence for church establishments. I have sometimes thought of " writing a dialogue of...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... | |
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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. 
