| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...which " had grown up in silence and obscurity, and derived new vigour from opposition, finally erecting the triumphant banner of the cross on the ruins of the Capitol." Converted, then, into a political engine, it was employed to make concessions where conquests were... | |
| Christianity - 1803 - 430 pages
...by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itaelf into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigour from opposition, and finally erected . the triumphant .banners of the cross on the ruins of... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1812 - 586 pages
...of contradiction and confusion. Speaking ofthe progress of Christianity, vol. ii. p. 265, he says, " a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself...men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigour from opposition ; and finally erected the triumphant banner of the cross on the ruins ofthe... | |
| John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1824 - 454 pages
...fruit, and, spreading far and wide, received under its shelter a continually increasing multitude. " A pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself...men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigour from opposition, and finally erected the triumphant banner of the Cross on the ruins of the... | |
| John Bird Sumner - Apologetics - 1824 - 464 pages
...gently insinuated itself into the minds of men, grew up in silence and obscurity, derived new vigour from opposition, and finally erected the triumphant banner of the Cross on the ruins of the Capitol. Still farther, after a revolution of thirteen or fourteen centuries, that religion is still professed... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 682 pages
...Arnobius, and others. body," (the Roman empire) " was invaded by open violence or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion, gently insinuated...men ; grew up in silence and obscurity ; derived new vigour from opposition ; and finally erected the triumphant banner of the cross on the ruins of the... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 684 pages
...rnobius, and others. body," (the Roman empire) " was invaded by open violence or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion, gently insinuated...men ; grew up in silence and obscurity ; derived new vigour from opposition ; and finally erected the triumphant banner of the cross on the ruins of the... | |
| Robert Owen - Apologetics - 1829 - 568 pages
...Mr. Gibbon) that great body" (the Roman Empire) "was involved by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated itself into the minds of men; grew up in silence jud obscurity; derived new vigor from opposition ; and finally erected the triumphant banner of the... | |
| Robert Haldane - Bible - 1834 - 534 pages
...Gibbon, " that great body " (the Roman empire) " was invaded by open violence, or undermined by slow decay, a pure and humble religion gently insinuated...men ; grew up in silence and obscurity ; derived new vigour from opposition ; and finally erected the triumphant banner of the cross on the ruins of the... | |
| Francis Augustus Cox - Bible - 1836 - 246 pages
...accumulating multitudes are still flocking to 68 the standard of salvation. " Christianity," says Gibbon, " erected the triumphant banner of the cross on the...the influence of Christianity confined to the period or the limits of the Roman empire. After a revolution of thirteen or fourteen centuries, that religion... | |
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