 | Bibliography - 1776 - 568 pages
...curiofitv, and the devotion of mankind, pafled without notice in an age of icience and hiilory. That it happened during the life-time of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who muft have experienced the immediate effects, or received theearlieft intelligence of the prodigy. Each... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1777 - 588 pages
...the curiofity, and the devotion of mankind, paffed without notice in an age of fcience and hiiiory. It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who mull have experienced the immediate effects, or received theearlieft intelligence, of the prodigy.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1783 - 524 pages
...curiofity, and the devotion of mankind, pafled without notice in an age of fcience and hiftory *"*. It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who muft have experienced the immediate effects, or received the earlieft intelligence, of the prodigy.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1810 - 462 pages
...praeternatu. ral darkness of three hours. Even tins miraculous event, which ought to have excited the wouder, the curiosity, and the devotion of mankind, passed...eclipses, which his indefatigable curiosity could collect'97.— Both the one and the other have omitted to mention ihe greatest phenomenon to which... | |
 | 1822 - 526 pages
...miraculous event 'passed tvit/Miit notice in an age of science and history. It happened/ he adds, ' during the life-time of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced tli e immediate effects, or received the earliest intelligence of the prodigy. Each of these philosophers,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 682 pages
...miraculous event "passed without notice in an age of science and history. It happened," he adds, " during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny,...meteors, comets, and eclipses, which his indefatigable industry could collect. Both the one and the other have omitted to mention the greatest phenomenon,... | |
 | Jonathan Duncan - Dissenters, Religious - 1825 - 274 pages
...mankind, passed without notice in an age of science and history : it happened during the life time of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced...eclipses, which his indefatigable curiosity could collect. Both the one and the other have omitted to mention the greatest phenomena to which the mortal... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 684 pages
...miraculous event "passed without notice in an age of science and history. It happened," he adds, " during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny,...these philosophers, in a laborious work, has recorded ail the great phenomena of nature, earthquakes, meteors, comets, and eclipses, which his indefatigable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 468 pages
...devotion of mankind, passed without notice in an age of science and history.196 It happened durincthe lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have...indefatigable curiosity could collect.197 Both the one and the othe; have omitted to mention the greatest phenomenon to whiek the mortal eye has been witness since... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1826 - 878 pages
...send us any of their oil when our lamps had gone out. " The mysterious darkness at the crucifixion happened during the life-time of Seneca and the elder...received the earliest intelligence, of the prodigy : and each of these philosophers, in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phenomena of nature,... | |
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It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced the immediate effects, or received the earliest intelligence, of the prodigy. Each of these philosophers, in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phenomena... 
