| Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 602 pàgines
...was relieved by the power or skill of the exorcist, and the vanquished daemon was heard to confess that he was one of the fabled gods of antiquity, who had impiously usurped the adoration of mankind.7" But the miraculous cure of diseases, of the most inveterate... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 pàgines
...was relieved by the power or skill of the exorcist, and the vanquished daemon was heard to confess that he was one of the fabled gods of antiquity, who had impiously •< Irenaus adv. Hares. Proem, pjt Dr. Middlelon (Free Inquiry, p. 96, &c.) observes, lhat... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pàgines
...was relieved by the power or skill of the exorcist, and the vanquished daemon was heard to confess that he was one of the fabled gods of antiquity, who had impiously usurped the adoration of mankind.76 But the miraculous cure of diseases, of the most inveterate... | |
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