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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. "
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... - Seite 476
1839
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The Auto-biography of Edward Gibbon, Esq: Illustrated from His Letters, with ...

Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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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Autobiography: Illus. from His Letters, with Occasional Notes and Narratives

Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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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Critical and miscellaneous essays, by an octogenarian (J. Roche).

James Roche - 1850 - 572 Seiten
...sentiments on that mighty event, perfectly coincided with those of Burke. " I have sometimes," he says, " thought of writing a dialogue of the dead, in which...blind and fanatic multitude." The idea was a good one, but would have been best executed by a renouncement of the principles of which the propagation by the...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes ..., Band 1

Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 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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New Biographies of Illustrious Men

1857 - 426 Seiten
...214. yet he had the effrontery to say in his Memoir, on the breaking out of the French Revolution, — "I have sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of...of exposing an old superstition to the contempt of a blind and fanatic multitude." l Assuredly he should have made himself a fourth interlocutor in the...
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Passages from the Diary and Letters of Henry Craik, of Bristol

Henry Craik, William Elfe Tayler - 1866 - 458 Seiten
...dishonourable. The most exceptional passage in his history of himself seems to me the following : — ' I have sometimes thought of writing a dialogue of...to the contempt of the blind and fanatic multitude/ Now, if Gibbon was a believer in the truth of Christianity, what sense could there be in combining...
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The Autobiography and Correspondence of Edward Gibbon, the Historian

Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 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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On the pursuit of truth as exemplified in the principles of evidence ...

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...
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Engelske forfattere i udvalg. med biografiske indeldminger og oplysende ...

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...
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Memoirs of Edward Gibbon, Esq

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,...
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