 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 páginas
...conviction." At the same time, he reports that "it was here that I suspended my Religious enquiries," while "acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants" (M, 74). In what did Gibbon's full conviction lie? Surely in the futility of religious inquiry. Yet... | |
 | Bruce Mansfield - 1992 - 548 páginas
...changes and contradictions of our first reformers' - and reconversion to some kind of residual faith ('acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants'), he found a model in Pierre Bayle as understood by the Enlightenment: 'he balances the false religions... | |
 | Stefan Collini, Richard Whatmore, B. W. Young, Brian Young - 2000 - 306 páginas
...received the sacrament in the Church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my Religious enquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and...are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.'78 Such positions, while not incompatible, are in mood and posture hardly contiguous.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1897 - 608 páginas
...' It was here,' says Gibbon with imperturbable gravity, ' that 1 suspended my Religious enquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.' The ' thin little figure with the large head,' upon which dull M. Pavillard gazed with astonishment,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 412 páginas
...received the sacrament in the Church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my Religious enquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and...the general consent of Catholics and Protestants. Such, from my arrival at Lausanne during the first eighteen or twenty months (July, 1753-March, 1755)... | |
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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... 
