 | Bibliography - 1776 - 568 pages
...weight will fuch evidence carry with a Ikcptir or unbeliever, who is told on the ether hand, that " Even this miraculous event, which ought to have excited the wonder, the curiofitv, and the devotion of mankind, pafled without notice in an age of icience and hiilory. That... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1777 - 588 pages
...or at leaft a celebrated province of the Roman empire, was involved in a preternatural darknefs of three hours. Even this miraculous event, which ought to have excited the wonder, the curiofity, and the devotion of mankind, paffed without notice in an age of fcience and hiiiory. It... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - God - 1787 - 602 pages
...leaft a celebrated " province of the Roman empire, was in" volved in a preternatural darknefs of " three hours. Even this miraculous " event, which ought to have excited the " wonder, the curiofity, and the devotion " of mankind, pafled without notice, in an " age of fcience and hiftory."... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1792 - 380 pages
...leaft a celebrated Province of the Roman *c Empire, was involved in a preternatural darknefs ce of three hours. Even this miraculous event, " which ought to have excited the wonder, the curi" ofity, and the devotion of mankind, pajjed without X " notice ** notice in an age of Science... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 530 pages
...of three hours. Even em -rrtnr •• this miraculous event, which ought to have ex. ' / ' ' cited the wonder, the curiosity, and the devotion of mankind,...passed without notice in an age of science and history J. It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced the immediate... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1810 - 462 pages
...praeternatu. ral darkness of three hours. Even tins miraculous event, which ought to have excited the wouder, the curiosity, and the devotion of mankind, passed without notice in an age of science and history196. It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 510 pages
...or at least a celebrated province of the Roman empire,1 was involved in a preternatural darkness of three hours. Even this miraculous event, which ought...of science and history.™ It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced the immediate effects, or received... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 684 pages
...contemporary writers. Speaking of that darkness, he expresses his surprise that this miraculous event "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 the immediate... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 682 pages
...contemporary writers. Speaking of that darkness, he expresses his surprise that this miraculous event "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 the immediate... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 468 pages
...involved in • preternatural darkness of three hoars. Etec this miraculous event, which ought to hare excited the wonder, the curiosity, and the devotion...mankind, passed without notice in an age of science and history.196 It happened durincthe lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced... | |
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Under the reign of Tiberius, the whole earth, or at least a celebrated province of the Roman empire, was involved in a preternatural darkness of three hours. Even this miraculous event, which ought to have excited the •wonder, the curiosity, and the... 
