 ... visions. The belief of the Catholics was corrupted by new legends, their practice by new superstitions ; and the establishment of the inquisition, the mendicant orders of monks and friars, the last abuse of indulgences, and the final progress of idolatry,...  The Crusades - Pagina 1731799 - 192 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pagina’s
...indulgences, and the final progress of idolatry, flowed from the baleful fountain of the holy war. The active spirit of the Latins preyed on the vitals...religion ; and if the ninth and tenth centuries were the times of darkness, the thirteenth and fourteenth were the age of absurdity and fable. In the profession... | |
 | George Miller - 1820 - 624 pagina’s
...idolatry, flowed from the baleful fountain of the holy war. The active spirit of the Latins preyed upon the vitals of their reason and religion; and if the ninth and tenth centuries were the times of darkness, the thirteenth and • Decline and Fall, &c. vol. 6. p. 209—211. fourteenth... | |
 | George Miller - 1832 - 518 pagina’s
...idolatry, flowed from the baleful fountain of the holy war. The active spirit of the Latins preyed upon the vitals of their reason and religion; and, if the ninth and tenth centuries were the times of darkness, the thirteenth and fourteenth were the age of absurdity and fable.' He afterwards,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1851 - 694 pagina’s
...indulgences, and the final progress of idolatry, flowed from the baleful fountain of the holy war. The active spirit of the Latins preyed on the vitals...religion ; and if the ninth and tenth centuries were the times of darkness, the thirteenth and fourteenth were the age of absurdity and fable. In the profession... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pagina’s
...indulgences, and the final progress of idolatry, flowed from the baneful fountain of the holy war. The active spirit of the Latins preyed on the vitals...religion ; and if the ninth and tenth centuries were the times of darkness, the thirteenth and fourteenth were the age of absurdity and fable. In the profession... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 628 pagina’s
...indulgences, and the final progress of idolatry, flowed from the baleful fountain of the holy war. The active spirit of the Latins preyed on the vitals...religion ; and if the ninth and tenth centuries were the times of darkness, the thirteenth . and fourteenth were the age of absurdity and fable. In the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 pagina’s
...indulgences, and the final progress of idolatry, flowed from the baleful fountain of the holy war. The active spirit of the Latins preyed on the vitals...religion ; and if the ninth and tenth centuries were the times of darkness, the thirteenth and fourteenth were the age of absurdity and fable. In the profession... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pagina’s
...of indulgences, and the final progress of idolatry flowed from the baneful fountain of the holy war. The active spirit of the Latins preyed on the vitals...religion ; and if the ninth and tenth centuries were the times of darkness, the thirteenth and fourteenth were the age of absurdity and fable. In the profession... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1866 - 300 pagina’s
...of indulgences, and the final progress of idolatry flowed from the baneful fountain of the holy war. The active spirit of the Latins preyed on the vitals...religion; and if the ninth and tenth centuries were the times of darkness, the thirteenth and fourteenth were the age of absurdity and fable. In the profession... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1870 - 524 pagina’s
...indulgences, and the final progress of idolatry, flowed from the baleful fountain of the holy war. The active spirit of the Latins, preyed on the vitals...religion; and if the ninth and tenth centuries were the times of darkness, the thirteenth and fourteenth were the age of absurdity and fable" How truly... | |
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