 | Herodotus - 1791 - 470 pàgines
...immediate action of the deity. snd the aflonifhed fancy of the multitude lus fonirtiuies given il.apa, colour, language, and motion to the fleeting but uncommon meteors of the air." The quicquid Grsccia mendax, audet in hifloria, applied by the Roman fatirill to the Greek hiitorians,... | |
 | 1798 - 604 pàgines
...immediate a£lion of the deity ; and the aftoniihed fancy of the multitude has fometimes given fhapc and colour, language and motion, to the fleeting but...ftudied panegyrics, have laboured to exalt the glory of Conflantine. Nine years after the roman victory, Nazarius defcribes an army of divine warriors, who... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 498 pàgines
...immediate action of the Deity, and the astonished fancy of the multitude has sometimes given shape, colour, language, and motion to -the fleeting but uncommon meteors of the air." dred youths M whom they sent to Delphi, ninetyeight perished by some infectious disorder ; two alone... | |
 | 1825 - 342 pàgines
...ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity ; and the astonished fancy of the multitude has sometimes given shape and colour, language and motion to the...fleeting, but uncommon meteors of the air. Nazarius and Eusebius are the two most celebrated orators, who in studied panegyrics, have laboured to exalt the... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1829 - 770 pàgines
...ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity ; and the astonished fancy of the multitude has sometimes given shape and colour, language and motion to the...fleeting, but uncommon meteors of the air. Nazarius and Eusebius are the two most celebrated orators, who in studied panegyries, have laboured to exalt the... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 412 pàgines
...immediate action of the deity, and the astonished fancy of the multitude has sometimes given shape, color, language, and motion to the fleeting but uncommon meteors of the air.' expedition against Tbasus, followed by a numerous body of lonians and jEolians. Whilst he was before... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 504 pàgines
...ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity; and the astonished fancy of the multitude has sometimes given shape and colour, language and motion, to the fleeting but uncommon meteors of the air.45 Nazarius and Eusebius are the two most celebrated racter, literary as well as moral, is not... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1864 - 334 pàgines
...ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity ; and the astonished fancy of the multitude has sometimes given shape and colour, language and motion, to the fleeting but uncommon meteors of the air." But with still greater wonder will the philosopher examine the interpretations affixed by an ignorant... | |
 | Livy - 1885 - 284 pàgines
...ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity ; and the astonished fancy of the multitude has sometimes given shape and colour, language and motion, to the fleeting but uncommon meteors of the air." That many of the Eomans were sceptical as to portents and auguries is shown by the story of P. Claudius,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 642 pàgines
...action of the Deity; and the astonished fancy of the multitude has sometimes given shape and color, language and motion, to the fleeting but uncommon meteors of the air." Naxarius and Eusebius are the two most celebrated orators " Instinctn Divinitatis, mentis magniludine.... | |
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... of the readers has much more frequently been insulted by fiction. Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature, has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity; and the astonished... 
