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 | 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... | |
 | 1833 - 508 pages
...the insipid legends of ecclesiastical history, I am tempted to distinguish the memorable fable of the Seven Sleepers ; whose imaginary date corresponds...conquest of Africa by the Vandals. When the Emperor Dccius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 474 pages
...the insipid legends of ecclesiastical history, I mm templed to distinguish the memorable fable of (he Seven Sleepers; whose imaginary date corresponds with...the Emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven notable youths of Ephesus concealed .m-Hves in a spacious cavern on the side of an adjacent them* mountain... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli, Jsaac D'Jsraeli - 1835 - 524 pages
...legends of ecclesiastical history, I am templed to distinguish the memorable fable of the Seven Steepen ; whose imaginary date corresponds with the reign of...conquest of Africa by the Vandals. When the Emperor Deems persecuted the Christians, seven notable youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...studies at Athens. In another of the miraculous legends of ecclesiastical history, it is said, that when the Emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus having concealed themselves in a spacious cavern, the tyrant doomed them to perish there, giving orders... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...studies at Athens. In another of the miraculous legends of ecclesiastical history, it is said, that when the Emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus having concealed themselves in a spacious cavern, the tyrant doomed them to perish there, giving orders... | |
 | 1836 - 352 pages
...insipid legends of ecclesiastical history, I am tempted to distinguish the memorable fable of the Saxn Sleepers; whose imaginary date corresponds with the...Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of a mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 pages
...transferred to Catholic saints and martyrs. The legend relates " that when Decius was still persecuting 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... | |
 | 1843 - 568 pages
...of ecclesiastical history, I am tempted to distinguish the memorahle fahle of the seven sleeper* ; whose imaginary date corresponds with the reign of...the younger Theodosius, and the conquest of Africa hy the Vandals. When the Emperor Decius persecuted the christians, seven nohle youths of Ephesus concealed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 486 pages
...ecclesiastical history, I am tempted to distinguish the memorable Table of the SEVEN SLEEPERS :(43) whose imaginary date corresponds with the reign of...Theodosius, and the conquest of Africa by the Vandals. (44) When the emperor Decius persecuted^ the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves... | |
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