The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: to Which Is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author
The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: to Which Is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 Excerpt: ... to hide his confusion, insinuates something like it, but under cover of the destruction of the temple at Daphne f; and otherwise, in so oblique and obscure a manner as shews him to be ashamed of so foolish a pretence. But then his honest and wellnstructed advocate, Amm. Marcellinus, is far from giving into this ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 Excerpt: ... to hide his confusion, insinuates something like it, but under cover of the destruction of the temple at Daphne f; and otherwise, in so oblique and obscure a manner as shews him to be ashamed of so foolish a pretence. But then his honest and wellnstructed advocate, Amm. Marcellinus, is far from giving into this suspicion; the different manner in See pp. 80, &c. + Which, it is not unlikely, was burnt by common lightning, though Julian, in his Misopogon, directly charges it on the Christians. / a 2 which which he relates the two events at Nicomedia and Jerusalem evidently imply the contrary. In his account of tine former, out of a pure parade of science, he digresses, on the physical causes of earthquakes. In the latter (would the fact have borne him out) he had better reasons than an affectation to shew his learning, to tell us what the philosophers had said most plausible, in favour of a natural event; for had that been the fact, the true cause, he knew, was universally mistaken; and Paganism was essentially concerned to have that mistake rectified. On the contrary, Ammianus hath contributed to support the general opinion, by expressions which evidently imply superior agency. Yet was this candid Historian nothing shy in speaking his mind, when he conceived either fraud or superstition had too large a share in common reports. For, mentioning the conflagration of Apollo's temple at Daphne, which the Christians boasted to be miraculously consumed by lightning, he frankly declares it was suspected to have been set on tire by themselves. But why should I iusist on the conduct of so fair an adversary as Marcellinus, when Libanius, and the rest of Julian's sophists, those bigots to Paganism, and inflamers of their master's follies, dared not so much as mutter...
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