 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pages
...with the Protestant Church of Lausanne. "It was here," writes the mature Gibbon, "that I suspended ray religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants." But it was not only in his amended religious creed that Gibbon profited by the instructions of his... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pages
...the sacrament in the Protestant church of Lausanne. " It was here," he says in his autobiography, " that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants." It would appear, however, from his subsequent writings that, probably owing to the influence of Voltaire,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 pages
...ago became very fat and corpulent, but he had uncommonly small bones, and was very slightly made. S. that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.* * From, MB. PAVILLIABD to EDWARD GIBBON, ESQ. June 26, 1754. Si a, — I hope that you will pardon... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 pages
...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 * Mr. Pavilliard has descrihed to me the astonishment with which he gazed on Mr. Giblion standing hefore... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...Jan. 16, 1794. Referring to his admission to the Protestant church at Lausanne, Gibbon remarks : '' It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries,...mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholies and Protestants." Gibbon "nowhere openly avows his disbelief," and it is impossible to discover... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1881 - 468 pages
...of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas-day 1754,1 received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne....the general consent of catholics and protestants. Such, from my arrival at Lausaune, during the first eighteen or twenty months (July 1753—March 1755),... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...received the sacrament in the Protestant church at Lausanne. ' It was here,' says the historian, ' that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing...implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which arc adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.' At Lausanne, a regular and severe... | |
 | 1883 - 836 pages
...after a full conviction, on Christmas-day, 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lusanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries,...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants." He thus had been a Catholic for about eighteen months. Gibbon's residence at Lausanne was a memorable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1887 - 1040 pages
...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....are adopted by the general consent of catholics and protestante. Such, from my arrival at Lausanne, during the first eighteen or twenty months (July 1753... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1890 - 866 pages
...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....inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenete and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.' He lived... | |
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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... 
