 | Edward Gibbon - 1984 - 250 Seiten
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 | René Wellek - 1984 - 684 Seiten
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 | Jan Sperna Weiland, Willem Th. M. Frijhoff - 1988 - 280 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...superstition to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude.23 How is this use of Erasmus to be related to the earlier presentation of him as a destroyer... | |
 | Detmar Doering - 1990 - 330 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...superstition to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude."1 1) Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, hrsg. v. B. Radice, Harmondswords 1984, Seite 187... | |
 | Bruce Mansfield - 1992 - 548 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...superstition to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude.100 Gibbon disliked Priestley, apparently because he insisted on indulging in religious polemics... | |
 | 1993 - 1068 Seiten
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 | Otfried Schütz - 1993 - 512 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...superstition to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude."1 1) Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, hrsg. v. B. Radice, Harmondswords 1984, Seite 187... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1996 - 756 Seiten
...philosophy, and, characteristically enough, sought to blame others for what he too had been responsible for. "I have sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of...superstition to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude."1 Gibbon, it is true, had never addressed the multitude, but his notorious chap9 Ibid.,... | |
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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. 
