 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1909 - 664 pages
...few modern critics, Hi- n. Le Clero, Lardner, &c., are desirous of confining it to the land of Judea. immediate effects, or received the earliest intelligence,...eclipses, which his indefatigable curiosity could collect.199 Both the one and the other have omitted to mention the greatest phenomenon to which the... | |
 | Robert Blatchford - Agnosticism - 1910 - 226 pages
...all 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...eclipses, which his indefatigable curiosity could collect. But the one and the other have omitted to mention the greatest phenomenon to which mortal eye has been... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1914 - 670 pages
...and is certainly right. See Bindley's ed. p. 78. The official report of Pilate is said to be meant.] immediate effects, or received the earliest intelligence,...comets, and eclipses, which his indefatigable curiosity conld collect.199 Both the one and the other have omitted to mention the greatest phenomenon to which... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 pages
...merely a passing cloud ; a rising mist ; a column 202 MIRACLES NOT RECORDED BY PAGAN WRITERS. enced the immediate effects, or received the earliest intelligence,...eclipses, which his indefatigable curiosity could collect.1" Both the one and the other have omitted to mention the greatest phenomenon to which the... | |
 | Robert Blatchford - Agnosticism - 1919 - 264 pages
...all 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 gfeat phenomena of Nature, earthquakes, meteors, comets, and eclipses, which his indefatigable curiosity... | |
 | Dame Christabel Pankhurst - Bible - 1924 - 218 pages
...devotion of mankind, passed without notice in an age of science and study. It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced the immediate effects and received the earliest intelligence of the prodigy. Each of these philosophers in a laborious work... | |
 | W. W. Robson, William Wallace Robson - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 288 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...received the earliest intelligence, of the prodigy. 30 Each of these philosophers, in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phenomena of Nature,... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Religion - 1997 - 526 pages
...his crucifixion, was a species of evidence that must have forced itself upon their senses. " £ach of these philosophers in a laborious work, has recorded...comets, and eclipses, which his indefatigable curiosity coutd collect : neither of them have mentioned, or even alluded, to the miraculous darkness at the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1998 - 1094 pages
...mankind, passed without notice in an age of science and history.196 It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced...eclipses, which his indefatigable curiosity could collect.197 Both the one and the other have omitted to mention the greatest phenomenon to which the... | |
 | Kersey Graves - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1999 - 444 pages
...happened during the life of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced its immediate effecis, or received the earliest intelligence of the prodigy. Each of these philosophers, in a labored work, has recorded all the phenomena of Nature's earthquakes, meteors and eclipses, which his... | |
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It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced the immediate effects, or received the earliest intelligence, of the prodigy. Each of these philosophers, in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phenomena... 
