 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1803 - 464 σελίδες
...CONSTANTINE, were now con- p AIRV^ n_ firmed, enlarged, and embellished, in various'— v— — ' ways. From hence arose that extravagant veneration...every where to be seen. Hence also the celibacy of priests, the worship of images and relics, which, in process of ti ne, almost utte.-ly destroyed the... | |
 | Joseph Lomas Towers - 1808 - 346 σελίδες
...spirits.— Those vain fictions, which an attachment to the Platonic philosophy, and to popular opinions, had engaged the greatest part of the Christian doctors...confirmed, enlarged, and embellished in various ways.' ' It would seem as if all possible means had been industriously used, to give an air of folly and extravagance... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1810 - 450 σελίδες
...here; for those vain fictions, which an attachment to the platonic philosophy, and to popular opinions, had engaged the greatest part of the christian doctors...that now prevailed, and of which the public marks wereevery where to be seen. Hence also the celibacy of priests, the worship of images and relics, which,... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1811 - 494 σελίδες
...for departed faint;;, and thofe abfurd notions of a certain fire deftined to purify feparate fouls, that now prevailed, and of which the public marks were every where to be feen. Hence alfo the celibacy of priefts, the worfhip of images and relics, which, in procefs of time,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 270 σελίδες
...follows — "the vain fictions, which an attachment to the Platonic philosophy, and to popular opinions, had engaged the greatest part of the Christian doctors...departed saints, and those absurd notions of a certain Jire destined to purify separate souls, that now prevailed, and of which the public marks were every... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1819 - 450 σελίδες
...enlarged, and embellished, in various ,^R'rj^, ways. From hence arose that extravagant vene- ^ ration for departed saints, and those absurd notions of a...every where to be seen. Hence also the celibacy of priests, the worship of images and relics, which, in process of time, almost utterly destroyed the... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1824 - 544 σελίδες
...greatest part of the Christian doctors to adopt, oefore the time of Constantine, were now i-onfirmed, enlarged, and embellished in various ways. From hence...every where to be seen. Hence also the celibacy of priests, the worship of images and relics, which, in process of time, almost utterly destroyed the... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1824 - 538 σελίδες
...; for those vain fictions which an attachment to the Platonic philosophy, and to popular opinions, had engaged the greatest part of the Christian doctors...confirmed, enlarged, and embellished in various ways. Prom hence arose that extravagant veneration for departed saints, and those absurd notions of a certain... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1826 - 442 σελίδες
...; for those vain fictions, which an attachment to the Platonic philosophy, and to popular opinions, had engaged the greatest part of the Christian doctors...confirmed, enlarged, and embellished, in various ways. Hence arose that extravagant veneration for departed saints, and those absurd notions of a certain... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1841 - 470 σελίδες
...for those vain fictions, which •an attachment to the Platonic philosophy and to popular opinions had engaged the greatest part of the Christian doctors...confirmed, enlarged, and embellished in various ways. Hence arose that extravagant veneration for departed saints, and those absurd notions of a certain... | |
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Nor did the evil end here; for those vain fictions, which an attachment to the platonic philosophy, and to popular opinions, had engaged the greatest part of the christian doctors to adopt, before the time of Constantine, were now confirmed, enlarged,... 
