| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - Počet stránok 460
...Destruction of Paganisrn. Introduction of the Worship ef Saints, and Relics, among the Christians. * I 'HE ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the ' — v — • total extirpation of any ancient and popular super- 1 he <!e" , 1 * * * * struct ion... | |
| Edward Irving - 1831 - Počet stránok 470
...next agent whom God used to subvert and supplant the Pagan idolatries. In the language of Gibbon, " The ruin of Paganism in the age of Theodosius is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition ; and may therefore be considered as a singular... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1831 - Počet stránok 468
...Paganism. — Introduction of the worship of Saints and nelics, among the Christians. [AD 378 — 395.] THE ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition ; and may therefore deserve to be considered, as... | |
| George Bush - 1832 - Počet stránok 288
...as we have already intimated, its final consummation in or shortly after the reign of Theodosius. " The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition ; and may therefore be considered as a singular... | |
| 1842 - Počet stránok 712
...^Eschylus, who, in almost every other respect, have shown such superior sagacity in de* Hermotimus. t The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is, perhaps, the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition, and may therefore deserve, to be considered as... | |
| George Bush - 1842 - Počet stránok 240
...as we have already intimated, its final consummation in or shortly after the reign of Theodosius. " The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition ; and may therefore be considered as a singular... | |
| George Bush - 1842 - Počet stránok 240
...as we have already intimated, its final consummation in or shortly after the reign of Theodosius. " The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition ; and may therefore be considered as a singular... | |
| 1845 - Počet stránok 384
...completely and so notoriously, that it was pronounced by Gibbon, a historian adverse to Christianity, to be perhaps the only example of the total extinction of an ancient and popular superstition. Theodosius the Great was, indeed, a strenuous friend to the Church ; from the time of his baptism to... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - Počet stránok 504
...DESTRUCTION OF PAGANISM. — INTRODUCTION OF THE WoBsmr or SAINTS AND RELICS AMONG THE CHRISTIANS. THE ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular Thedestruc- " ' J . . . superstition, and may therefore deserve... | |
| rev. Alexander Hislop - 1862 - Počet stránok 512
...— and his dates are from AD 378, the year when the Bishop of Rome was made Pontifex, to 395 — " The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may therefore deserve to be considered as... | |
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