| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
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