 | History - 1807 - 772 pages
...introduced in theory and'.pranice : ncr was my conclusion absurd, that miracles are the test of tru'b, ;ird that the church must be orthodox and pure,, which...interposition of the Deity. The marvellous tales which are so fcpldly attested by the Basils and Chry, sostoms, the Au'.tins and Jeroms, compelled m? to e-nbrace... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...period most of the leading doctrines of Popery were already introduced in theory and practice; net was my conclusion absurd, that miracles are the test of...attested by the Basils and Chrysostoms, the Austins and Jcroms, compelled me to embrace Chillingworlh himself yielded, was, " that there must be somewhere... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...period most of the leading doctrines of popery were already introduced in theory and practice: nor was my conclusion absurd, that miracles are the test of...was so often approved by the visible interposition bf the Deity. The marvellous tales which are so boldly attested by the Basils and Chysostoms, the Austins... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...period most of the leading doctrines of Popery were already introduced in theory and practice ; nor was my conclusion absurd, that miracles are the test of...Chrysostoms, the Austins and Jeroms, compelled me to embrace Chillingworth himself yielded, was, " that there must be somewhere an infallible judge, and the the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...doctrines of popery were already introduced in theory am' practice : nor was my conclusion.absurd — that miracles are the test of truth, and that the...boldly attested by the Basils and Chrysostoms, the Augustins and Jeromes, compelled me to embrace the superior merits of celibacy, the it. stitution of... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...period most of the leading doctrines of popery were already introduced in theory and practice : nor was my conclusion absurd — that miracles are the test...boldly attested by the Basils and Chrysostoms, the Augustins and Jeromes, compelled me to embrace the superior merits of celibacy, the ir stitution of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...period most of the leading doctrines of popery were already introduced in theory and practice; nor was my conclusion absurd, that miracles are the test of...interposition of the Deity. The marvellous tales which arc so boldly attested by the Basils and Chrysostoms, the Austins and Jeroms, compelled me to embrace... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...period most of the leading doctrines of Popery were already introduced in theory and practice ; nor was my conclusion absurd, that miracles are the test of...Chrysostoms, the Austins and Jeroms, compelled me to embrace Chillingworth himself yielded, was, " that there must be somewhere an infallible judge, and the the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1827 - 566 pages
...period most of the leading doctrines of Popery were already introduced in theory and practice ; nor was my conclusion absurd, that miracles are the test of...that the church must be orthodox and pure, which was »o often approved by the visible interposition of the Deity. The marvellous tales which are so boldly... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...period most of the leading doctrines of popery were already introduced in theory and practice : nor was my conclusion absurd, that miracles are the test of...attested by the Basils and Chrysostoms, the Austins and Jeromes, compelled me to embrace the superior merits of celibacy, the institution of the monastic life,... | |
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I was unable to resist the weight of historical evidence, that within the same period most of the leading doctrines of popery were already introduced in theory and practice : nor was my conclusion absurd, that miracles are the test of truth, and that... 
