 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...by three of our senses... .the sight, the touch, and the taste. The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream ; and after a full...the general consent of catholics and protestants. Such, from my arrival at Lausanne, during the first eighteen or twenty months (July 1753. ...March... | |
 | B. Lambert - 1806 - 624 pages
...to Deism. At that period, however, he tells us, he suspended his religious enquiries, and acquiesced with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants. For some time after this he continued to prosecute his studies, applying with ardour to the cultivation... | |
 | 1807 - 772 pages
...conviction, on Christmas-day 1754, I rttvivcd the sacrament in the chiirc.Ii of Ьчичгпгкг. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit bilicf ii) the tenets and mysteries; which are adapted by the general consent of catholics and protestants.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...by three of our senses — the sight, the touch, and the taste. The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream ; and after a full...implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries, which arc adopted by the general consent of catholics and protestants.t Such, »M. Pavilliard has doscribed... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pages
...received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne ; and here it was, he informs us, that he suspended his religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief...the general consent of catholics and protestants. His advantages in other respects were so important during his residence at Lausanne, that here, for... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 pages
...received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne ; and here it was, he informs us, that he suspended his religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief...the general consent of catholics and protestants. His advantages in other respects were so important during his residence at Lausanne, that here, for... | |
 | 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 - 1815 - 558 pages
...the Church of Rome disappeared like a dream, and, after full conviction, on Christmas-day, 1754, 1 received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne....the general consent of Catholics and Protestants,' or, in other words, carrying with him into his new profession of religion one of the most pernicious... | |
 | 1840 - 772 pages
...dispersed all delusion hy a touch ! The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries ; acquiescing, with implicit faith, in the tenets and mysteries, which are adopted hy the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.—... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pages
...that it was principally effected by my private reflections. — The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream ; and, after a full...received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne." He now pursued his studies with the utmost avidity, and carefully perused and examined nearly the complete... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...attack, and my gradual concessions after a firm and well-managed defence.* I was • M. Pavilliard has described to me the astonishment with which he gazed...with a large head, disputing and urging, with the greatest ability, all the best arguments that had ever been used in favour of Popery. Mr Gibbon many... | |
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The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas-day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief... 
