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 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 448 pages
...seven sleep- " r ° . ... ers. history, 1 am tempted to distingiush the memorable fable of the SEVEN SLEEPERS * ; whose imaginary date corresponds with...Theodosius, and the conquest of Africa by the Vandals f. When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus * The choice of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 440 pages
...insipid legends of ecclesiastical history, I am tempted to distinguish the memorable fable of the SEVEN SLEEPERS;" whose imaginary date corresponds with the...younger Theodosius, and the conquest of Africa by the Vandals.1 When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of " The choice of... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1816 - 752 pages
...m. . QT BOOK v. 1 . One of the most ancient ecclesiastical romances, is that of the seven sleepers. When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus, we are told, concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 430 pages
.... ° i i- • • history, I am tempted to distmguish the memorable fable of the SEVEN SLEEPERS ;u whose imaginary date corresponds with the reign of...Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of " The choice of fabulous circumstances is of small importance; yet I have confined myself to the narrative... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 528 pages
...ecclesiastical history, sleepers." I am tempted to distinguish the memorable fable of the SEVEN SLEEPEBS ;" whose imaginary date corresponds with the reign of...conquest of Africa by the Vandals." When the emperor " The choice of fabulous circumstances is of small importance ; yet I have confined myself to the narrative... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...and white, as plain as a parcel of pea-rods.) Ah ! go on; <li in' t preach ! When the emperor Deans persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders... | |
 | 1825 - 354 pages
...distinguish the memorable fable of the SEVEW SLEEPERS, whose imaginary date corresponds with the reign of the the younger Theodosius, and the conquest of Africa...Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern, in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 542 pages
...ecclesiastical history, I ers. am tempted to distinguish the memorable fable of the SEVEN SLEEPERS u ; whose imaginary date corresponds with the reign of...Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders... | |
 | J S. Forsyth - 1827 - 472 pages
...insipid legends of ecclesiastical history, I am tempted to distinguish the memorable fable of the Seven Sleepers, whose imaginary date corresponds with the...by the Vandals. When the emperor Decius persecuted th? Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern on the side... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 468 pages
...corresponds with the reign of the younger Theodosius, and the conquest of Africa by the Vandals.(44) When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians,...Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders... | |
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