 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1804 - 502 pages
...been suddenly raised from the dead, to assist at the festival of some popular saint, or martyr ;88 they would have gazed with astonishment, and indignation,...and spiritual worship of a Christian congregation. As soon as the doors of the church were thrown open, they must have been offended by the smoke of incense,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 458 pages
...declamations against the Pagan, sometimes glance jgainst the Jewish, ceremonies. CHAP, popular skint, or martyr * ; they would have gazed with astonishment,...and spiritual worship of a Christian congregation. As soon as the doors of the church were thrown open, they must have been offended by the smoke of incense,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 460 pages
...Pagan, sometimes glance against the Jewish, ceremonies. CHAP, popular saint, or martyr * ; they woujd have gazed with astonishment, and indignation, on...and spiritual worship of a Christian congregation. As soon as the doors of the church were thrown open, they must have been offended by the smoke of incense,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 446 pages
...spiritual, that their declamations against the pagan, sometimes glance against the Jewish, ceremonies. CHAP. popular saint, or martyr ;' they would have gazed...and spiritual worship of a Christian congregation. As soon as the doors Of the church were thrown open, they must have been offended by the smoke of incense,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...the senses of the vulgar. If, in the beginning of the fifth century36, Tertullian, or Lactantius37, had been suddenly raised from the dead, to assist...and spiritual worship of a Christian congregation. As soon as the doors of the church were thrown open, they must have been offended by the smoke of incense,... | |
 | John Stonard - 1824 - 508 pages
...or martyr, they would have gazed with astonishment and * Decline and Fall, vol. 5, p. 133. 8vo. Ed. indignation on the profane spectacle, which had succeeded...and spiritual worship of a christian congregation. Assoonasthedoorsofthe church were thrown open, they must have been offended by the smoke of incense,... | |
 | John Stonard - Bible - 1824 - 512 pages
...or martyr, they would have gazed with astonishment and * Decline and Fall, vol. 5, p. 133. 8vo. Ed. indignation on the profane spectacle, which had succeeded...and spiritual worship of a Christian congregation. Assoonasthedoorsof the church were thrown open, they must have been offended by the smoke of incense,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1827 - 526 pages
...seemed most powerpaga'n ce°re- fu"v to &^ecl ^e senses of the vulgar. If, in the hemonies. ginning of the fifth century ', Tertullian, or Lactantius...and spiritual worship of a christian congregation. As soon as the doors of the church were thrown open, they must have been offended by the smoke of incense,... | |
 | William Cuninghame - Bible - 1832 - 698 pages
...which tended to restore the reign of polytheism." " If," continues the same writer, " in the beginning of the fifth century, Tertullian or Lactantius had...and spiritual worship of a Christian Congregation." — " The Christians frequented the tombs of the martyrs, in hope of obtaining from their powerful... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Rome - 1841 - 470 pages
...idolatry. " If, in the beginning of the fifth century," says Gibbon, whom we may here safely quote, " Tertullian or Lactantius had been suddenly raised...and spiritual worship of a Christian congregation. As soon as the doors of the church were thrown open, they must have been offended by the smoke of incense,... | |
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Tertullian or Lactantius had been suddenly raised from the dead, to assist at the festival of some popular saint or martyr, they would have gazed with astonishment and indignation on the profane spectacle, which had succeeded to the pure and spiritual... 
