 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 382 pages
...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....mysteries, which are adopted by the general consent of catholies and protestants. Such, from my arrival at Lausanne, during the first eighteen or twenty months... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...received the sacrament in the Protestant church at Lausanne. ' It was here,' says the historian, ' that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.' At Lausanne a regular and severe system of study perfected Gibbon in the Latin and i Ed ward Gibbon.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 772 pages
...sacrament in the Protestant church at Lausanne. ' It was here,' says the historian, ' that I impended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit...are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestante.' At Lausanne a regular and severe system of study perfected Gibbon in the Latin and Edward... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...the Romish creed disappeared like a dream ; and after a full conviction, on Christmas-day, 1754, 1 received the sacr'ament in the church of Lausanne....the tenets and mysteries, which are adopted by the geueral consent of Catholics and Protoetants.* head, disputing and urging, with the greatest ability,... | |
 | James William Massie - 1846 - 572 pages
...Calvinist Christianity, he received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. " It was here," says he, " that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants." GIBBON AND VOLTAIRE. 419 Desultory and excursive habits of study now gave place to method and regularity.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 764 pages
...sacrament in the Protestant church at Lausanne. ' It was here,' says the historian, ' that I impended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which ire adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.' At Lausanne a regular and severe... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 760 pages
...he received the sacrament in the Protestant church at Lausanne. ' It was here,' says the historian, 'that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.' At Lausanne a regular and severe system of study perfected Gibbon in the Latin and Edward Gibbon. ch... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...received the sacrament in the Protestant church at Lausanne. ' It was here,' says the future historian, ' that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing...mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholies and Protestants.' At Lausanne Gibbon became, by a regular and severe course of study, familiar... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pages
...belief in the doctrines of the Protestant church, and, according to his own statement, ' suspended his religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.' He remained in Switzerland for five years, during which time he paid ^reat attention to study, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1853 - 584 pages
...which principles are not yet founded on reason. " It was here," said Gibbon, recording this event, " that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants." So rapid a conversion from one creed to another, had already, as we see, shaken his confidence in both.... | |
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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... 
