 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda he has admirably described my two aunts.. ..the heathen and the... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher mast allow, that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda he has admirably described my two aunts — f . vine illumination... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher n:ust allow, that lie exposes, with equal severity and truth,...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of FLAVIA and MIRANDA he Jias admirably described my two aunts — the Heathen and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda he has admirably described my two aunts — the heathen and the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 558 pages
...piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange...to two very opposite imputations, that of being a Socinian and that of being a Methodist. What, however, was really erroneous in his opinions has been... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 558 pages
...piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange...to two very opposite imputations, that of being a Socinian and that of being a Methodist. What, however, was really erroneous in his opinions has been... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1815 - 866 pages
...mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a Philosopher must allow that he exposes, with eqiial severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the faith and practice of the Christian World. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda, he has admirably described my two Aunts, the Heathen and the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda he has admirably described my two aunts — the Heathen and the... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1825 - 398 pages
...piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame; and a philosopher must allow, that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda he has admirably described my two aunts — the Heathen and the... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange...between the faith and practice of the Christian world. Under the names of Flavia and Miranda he has admirably described my two aunts — the Heathen and the... | |
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... drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with... 
