| Bibliography - 1776 - 568 pages
...immediate effects, or received theearlieft intelligence of the prodigy. Each of thele philofophers, in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phenomena of nature, earthquakes, meteors, comets, and eclipfes, which his indefatigable cunofity could colleft. Both the one and the other have omitted to... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1783 - 524 pages
...immediate effects, or received the earlieft intelligence, of the prodigy. Each of thefe philofophers, in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phenomena of Nature, earthquakes, meteors, comets, and eclipfes, which his indefatigable curiofity could colled '". Both the one and the other have omitted... | |
| 1822 - 526 pages
...happened/ he adds, ' during the life-time of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced tli e immediate effects, or received the earliest intelligence...meteors, comets, and eclipses, which his indefatigable industry could collect, Both the one and the other have omitted to mention the greatest •phenomenon... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 682 pages
..."passed without notice in an age of science and history. It happened," he adds, " during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced...meteors, comets, and eclipses, which his indefatigable industry could collect. Both the one and the other have omitted to mention the greatest phenomenon,... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 684 pages
..."passed without notice in an age of science and history. It happened," he adds, " during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced...these philosophers, in a laborious work, has recorded ail the great phenomena of nature, earthquakes, meteors, comets, and eclipses, which his indefatigable... | |
| Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1826 - 878 pages
...our lamps had gone out. " The mysterious darkness at the crucifixion happened during the life-time of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced...received the earliest intelligence, of the prodigy : and each of these philosophers, in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phenomena of nature,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1827 - 474 pages
...of mankind, passed without notice in an age of science and historym. It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced the immediate effects, or received the earliest intellisibyls, would easily have detected the jewish and christian forgeries, which have been so triumphantly... | |
| Robert Taylor - Free thinkers and freethought - 1829 - 466 pages
...of mankind, passed without notice in an age of science and history. It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced...philosophers, in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phaenomena of nature — earthquakes, meteors, comets, and eclipses, which his indefatigable curiosity... | |
| Origen Bacheler - Bible - 1833 - 388 pages
...of three hours. Even this miraculous event, which ought to have excited the wonder, the curiosity or the devotion of mankind, passed without notice in...intelligence, of the prodigy. Each of these philosophers, in a labored work, has recorded all the great phenomena of nature, earthquakes, meteors, comets and eclipses,... | |
| Robert Taylor - Rationalism - 1834 - 458 pages
...a species of evidence that must have forced itself upon their senses. " Each of these philosophera in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phenomena...eclipses, which his indefatigable curiosity could collect ; neither of them have mentioned, or even alluded, to the miraculous darkness at the crucifixion."... | |
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