 | James Cotter Morison - 1878 - 216 pages
...mas-day, 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...admission to the Protestant church at Lausanne, Gibbon remarks : '' It was here that I suspended my turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven,...shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of Catholies and Protestants." Gibbon "nowhere openly avows his disbelief," and it is impossible to discover... | |
 | 1883 - 836 pages
...Christmas-day, 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lusanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief...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
...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...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
...It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenete and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.' He lived for nearly five years in M. Pavilliard's house, respecting the minister, and enduring with... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pages
...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...the general consent of catholics and protestants. Such, from my arrival at Lausanne, during the first eighteen or twenty months (July iy53-March 175... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...Christmas Day 1754, 1 received the sacrament in the Church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief...are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.2 1 M. Pavilliard has described to me the astonishment with which he gazed on Mr. Gibbon... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 pages
...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...are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.2 i M. Pavilliard has described to me the astonishment with which he gazed on Mr. Gibbon... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...Christmas Day 1754, 1 received the sacrament in the Church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief...are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.2 1 M. Pavilliard has described to me the astonishment with which he gazed on Mr. Gibbon... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1895 - 246 pages
...and corpulent, but he had uncommonly small bones, and was very slightly made. S» that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.* * From Ma. PAVILLIARD to EDWARD GIBBON, ESQ. June 26, 1754. SIR, — I hope that you will pardon my... | |
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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... 
