 | Evan Powell Meredith - 1864 - 634 sayfa
...promise of eternal happiness was proposed to mankind on condition of adopting the faith and of observing the precepts of the Gospel, it is no wonder that so...of modern ages cannot give us any adequate notion. "Ц • Act« ii. t iii. • iv. J Decline and Fall, chop. xv. вес. 9. } Mark xvi. 16. John iii.... | |
 | 1868 - 884 sayfa
...promise of eternal happiness was proposed to mankind on condition of adopting the faith and of observing the precepts of the gospel, it is no wonder that so...religion, of every rank, and of every province in the empire. The ancient Christians were animated by a contempt for their present existence and by a just... | |
 | 1868 - 904 sayfa
...promise of eternal happiness was proposed to mankind on condition of adopting the faith and of observing the precepts of the gospel, it is no wonder that so...religion, of every rank, and of every province in the empire. The ancient Christians were animated by a contempt for their present existence, and by a just... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1871 - 376 sayfa
...eternal happiness," he says, " was proposed to mankind, on condition of adopting the faith, and observing the precepts of the gospel, it is no wonder that so...rank, and of every province in the Roman empire." ' _ Now it is certainly no discredit to Christianity, that the views it exhibits of a future state... | |
 | 1837 - 472 sayfa
...happiness," says Mr. Gibbon, " was proposed to mankind, on condition of adopting the faith, and of observing the precepts of the Gospel, it is no wonder that so...every religion, of every rank, and of every province of the Roman empire." It was indeed " no wonder ;" and I know not if this reason alone, supposing only... | |
 | Daniel Garrison Brinton - 1876 - 308 sayfa
...taught it as a cardinal doctrine, though most marked in Christianity. A century ago Gibbon wrote : " The ancient Christians were animated by a contempt...just confidence of immortality, of which the doubtful but imperfect faith of modern ages cannot give us any adequate notion." 2 How true this is can be appreciated... | |
 | 1879 - 542 sayfa
...the quick and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end." The historian Gibbon is our authority that "the ancient Christians were animated by a contempt...which the doubtful and imperfect faith of modern ages can not give us any adequate notion. In the primitive church, the influence of truth was very powerfully... | |
 | Nathaniel West - 1879 - 540 sayfa
...the quick and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end." The historian Gibbon is our authority that "the ancient Christians were animated by a contempt...which the doubtful and imperfect faith of modern ages can not give us any adequate notion. In the primitive church, the influence of truth was very powerfully... | |
 | 1883 - 836 sayfa
...could give weight and efficacy to that important truth." Again we have an effect treated as a cause. " The ancient Christians were animated by a contempt...existence, and by a just confidence of immortality." Very true ; but the fact of their being so animated was what wanted explaining. Gibbon says it "was... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1891 - 296 sayfa
...promise of eternal happiness was proposed to mankind, on condition of adopting the faith and of observing the precepts of the Gospel, it is no wonder that so...of every rank, and of every province in the Roman empire."—Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" Vol. II. eh. xv. deserter from His national duty in being a... | |
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... it is no wonder that so advantageous an offer should have been accepted by great numbers of every religion, of every rank, and of every province in the Roman empire. 
