| Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 602 стор.
...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 Dictionnaire Critique, t. iv. p. 460). Without insisting on the... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1906 - 492 стор.
...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 orators who, in studied panegyrics, have laboured... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 стор.
...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. Nazarius Antignnus, is totally ignorant of this remarkable vision. « Insiinctu Divinitatis, mentis magnitudine.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 стор.
...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 orators who, in studied panegyrics, have laboured... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1920 - 784 стор.
...nothing can shake. ' The astonished fancy of the multitude,' says Gibbon (chap, xx) ' has sometimes given shape and colour, language and motion, to the fleeting but uncommon meteors of the air.' Nine years after Constantino's great victory ' Nazarius describes an army of divine warriors who seemed... | |
| Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, George Dawes Hicks, George Stephens Spinks, Lancelot Austin Garrard, H. L. Short - 1922 - 840 стор.
...with his mixture of insight and irony, says that " the astonished fancy of the multitude has sometimes given shape and colour, language and motion, to the fleeting but uncommon meteors of the air."2 Truly, given the predisposition, fog, mirage, and cloud-processions become causes of optical... | |
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