 Their serious and sequestered life, averse to the gay luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. As the greater number were of some trade or profession, it was incumbent on them, by the strictest...  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Stran 316avtor: Edward Gibbon - 1806Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | George Stanley Faber - 1824 - 300 strani
...sequestered life, averse to the gay luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. As the greater...the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and which produced such fruits ? Truly Christianity, if an imposture, must at least have... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1824 - 454 strani
...life," he says, " averse to the gay luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. As the greater...sanctity. The contempt of the world exercised them in habits of humility, meekness, and patience. Even their faults, or rather errors, were derived from... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1829 - 230 strani
...assigned by Mr. Gibbon for the success which attended inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. As the greater...appearances of sanctity. The contempt of the world tercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience. The we they were persecuted, the more... | |
 | John Sheppard - 1829 - 416 strani
...show, that the Christians of the first ages were a people whose them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. As the greater...strictest integrity and the fairest dealing, to remove the suspicion which the profane are too apt to conceive against the appearances of sanctity. The contempt... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1831 - 342 strani
...fairest dealing, to remove the suspicions which the profane are apt to conceive against the appearance of sanctity. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience. The more they were persecuted, the more closely they adhered to each other.... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 strani
...luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience. The more they were persecuted, the more closely they adhered to each other.... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 strani
...luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience. The more they were persecuted, the more closely they adhered to each other.... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 strani
...luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience. The more they were persecuted, the more closely they adhered to each other.... | |
 | John Henry Hopkins - 1833 - 194 strani
...luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness, and patience. The more they were persecuted, the more closely they adhered to each other.... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1841 - 336 strani
...sequestered life, averse to the gay luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues. As the greater...which the profane are too apt to conceive against the appearance of sanctity. The contempt of the world exercised them in the habits of humility, meekness,... | |
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