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... Tacitus , in delivering a relation , which has already been laid before the reader , of the fire which happened at Rome in the tenth year of Nero , which coincides with the thirtieth after Chrift's afcenfion , af- ferts , that the ...
... Tacitus , in delivering a relation , which has already been laid before the reader , of the fire which happened at Rome in the tenth year of Nero , which coincides with the thirtieth after Chrift's afcenfion , af- ferts , that the ...
Page 330
... Tacitus has given to Chriftianity , " exitiabilis fu- perftitio " ( a pernicious fuperftition ) , and by which two words he difpofes of the whole queftion of the merits or demerits of the religion , afford a ftrong proof how little he ...
... Tacitus has given to Chriftianity , " exitiabilis fu- perftitio " ( a pernicious fuperftition ) , and by which two words he difpofes of the whole queftion of the merits or demerits of the religion , afford a ftrong proof how little he ...
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... Tacitus we may build the following observations ; First , That we are well warranted in call- ing the view under which the learned men of that age beheld Christianity , an obfcure and diftant view . Had Tacitus known more of ...
... Tacitus we may build the following observations ; First , That we are well warranted in call- ing the view under which the learned men of that age beheld Christianity , an obfcure and diftant view . Had Tacitus known more of ...
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Gen | 1 |
Prophecy p I | 23 |
The candour of the Writers of the New Testament p | 85 |
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