 | Tobias Smollett - 1776 - 526 pagina’s
...Revelation was given. The theologian may indulge the pleating tafk of defcribing religion as fhe defcended from heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is impofed on the hiftorian. He mult difcover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption, which ihc... | |
 | 1776 - 586 pagina’s
...Revelation was given. The theologian may indulge the plea&ng talk of defcribing Religion as flic defcended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is impofed on the hUlorian. He mult difcover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption, which (he... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1777 - 588 pagina’s
...Revelation was given. The theologian may indulge the pleafing tak of defcribing religion as (he defcended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is impofed on the hiilorian. He mud difcover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption, which fhe... | |
 | 1803 - 430 pagina’s
...whom, the Divine Revelation was 'given. The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in...which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, upon a weak and degenerate race of beings. . . Our curiosity is naturally prompted to inquire by what... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1831 - 334 pagina’s
...to whom the divine revelation was given. The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from heaven arrayed in her...earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings." The above observation, though written with a sneer, is not the less true, and it overturns nine- tenths... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1831 - 342 pagina’s
...to whom the divine revelation was giyen. The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from heaven arrayed in her...inevitable mixture of error and corruption, which rfhe contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings." The above... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1841 - 336 pagina’s
...to whom the divine revelation was given. The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from heaven arrayed in her...earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings." The above observation, though written with a sneer, is not the less true, and it overturns nine-tenths... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 590 pagina’s
...period of Christianity. • The theologian,' says Gibboti, ' may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from heaven, arrayed in...native purity ; a more melancholy duty is imposed upon the historian : —he must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption, which she... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1834 - 600 pagina’s
...period of Christianity. • The theologian,' says Gibbon, ' may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from heaven, arrayed in...native purity ; a more melancholy duty is imposed upon the historian : — he must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption, •which... | |
 | Joseph MEDE - 1845 - 350 pagina’s
...observe and feel the contrast. Thus Gibbon remarks, — " Many indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from heaven, arrayed in...corruption, which she contracted in a long residence on earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings." Now whenever the visible Church of all past... | |
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The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she... 
