 | Edward William Whitaker - 1795 - 318 pages
...read, "like Thebes, or Baby" Ion, or Carthage, the name of Rome *' might have been crazed from the earth, " if the city had not been animated by '' a vital principle, which again reftored " her to honour and dominion." Hence the hiftory proceeds to ftate the effeQ: which the pofleffion... | |
 | English literature - 1800 - 614 pages
...embraced, that two Jcwiih teachers, a tent-maker and a fifherman (the apoftles St. Peter and St. Paul) had formerly been executed in the Circus of Nero ; and at the end of five hundred years the ¡r genuine or fictitious reJics were adored as the palladium of Chriftian Rome. The pilgrims of... | |
 | 1800 - 572 pages
...Babylon, or Carthage, the name of Roms might have been erased from the earth, (says Gibbon,) if the tity had not been animated by a vital principle, which again restored her to honour and dominion." This, according to oui .author, was the principle of idolatry; and, by the mighty influence of that... | |
 | Books - 1800 - 574 pages
...Babylon, or Carthage, the name of Rome . might have been erased from the earth, (says Gibbon,) if th* tity had not been animated by a vital principle, which again restored her to honour and dominion." This, according to our author, was the principle of idolatry; and, by the mighty influence of that... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1800 - 612 pages
...two Jewifli teachers, 4 tent-maker and a filherman (fhe apoftlcs St. Peter and Sr. Paulj had formeily been executed in the Circus of Nero; and at the end of five hundred years their genuine or fictitious relics were adored as the palladium of Chriftian Rome. The pilgrims of the Eaft... | |
 | Henry Kett - Bible - 1801 - 442 pages
...p. 313. " Like Thebes, or Babylon, or Carthage, the name of Rome might have been, erased jfrofrr the earth, if the city had not been animated by a vital principle, which again reftored her to honour and dominiorl," Vol. viii.' p: 161. The feventh head arofe when Boniface III.,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1807 - 492 pages
...dominion. A vague tradition was embraced, that two Jewifh teachers, a tentmaker, and a fiflierman, had formerly been executed in the circus of Nero ; and at the end of five hundred years, thek relics were• adored as the palladium -of ancient Rome. The pilgrims of the Eaft and Weft had... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 pages
...the mountains. Like Thebes, or Babylon, or Carthage, the name of Rome might have been erased from the earth, if the city had not been animated by a vital...Nero ; and, at the end of five hundred years, their genuine or fictitious relics were adored as the palladium of Christian Rome. The pilgrims of the east... | |
 | John Fry - Church history - 1825 - 642 pages
...Thebes, Babylon, or Carthage," Mr. Gibbon observes, " the name of Rome might have been erased from the earth, if the city had not been animated by a vital...which again restored her to honour and dominion." This vital principle, which once more saved the eternal city, we cannot say was the religion of Christ,... | |
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pages
...observes, that " like Thebes, Babylon, or Carthage, the name of Rome might have been erased from the earth, if the city had not been animated by a vital...Nero ; and at the end of five hundred years their genuine or fictitious relics were adored as the palladium of Christian Rome." If we consider what this... | |
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Like Thebes, or Babylon, or Carthage, the name of Rome might have been erased from the earth, if the city had not been animated by a vital principle, which again restored her to honour and dominion. 
