 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...natural was it for Tacitus, in the time of Hadrian, to appropriate to the Christians the guilt and the sufferings, which he might with far greater truth...sect whose odious memory was almost, extinguished ! " " Whatever opinion may be entertained of this conjecture, it is evident that the effect, as well... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...Tacitus, in the time of Hadrian, to appropriate to the Christians, the guilt and the sufferings, wliich he might, with far greater truth and justice, have...a sect whose odious memory was almost extinguished ! 4. Whatever opinion may be entertained of this conjecture (for it is no more than a conjecture),... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1843 - 588 pages
...Tacitus, in the time of Hadrian, to appropriate to the Christians, the guilt and the sufferings,1' which he might, with far greater truth and justice,...a sect whose odious memory was almost extinguished ! 4. Whatever opinion may be entertained of this conjecture, (for it is no more than a conjecture,)... | |
 | Andrews Norton - Bible - 1844 - 512 pages
...it," he says, " for Tacitus, in the time of Hadrian, to appropriate to the Christians the guilt and sufferings, which he might, with far greater truth...a sect whose odious memory was almost extinguished ? " The meaning of which is, that it was a natural error for Tacitus to report of the Christians what... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pages
...natural was it for Tacitus, in the time of Hadrian, to appropriate to the Christians the guilt and the sufferings * which he might, with far greater...a sect whose odious memory was almost extinguished I 4. Whatever opinion may be entertained of this conjecture (for it is no more than a conjecture),... | |
 | Bible - 1869 - 372 pages
...had been singled out as the objects of judicial investigation, should transfer to them 'the guilt and the sufferings which he might with far greater truth...attributed to a sect whose odious memory was almost extinguished3.' An able living writer also, the author of the 'History of the Romans under the Empire4,'... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1879 - 624 pages
...natural was it for Tacitus, in the time of Hadrian, to appropriate to the Christians the guilt and the sufferings,* which he might, with far greater truth and justice, have attributed to a sect v. !n,:-;<; odious memory was almost extinguished ! 4. Whatever opinion may be entertained of this... | |
 | Joseph Barber Lightfoot - Bible - 1881 - 372 pages
...been singled out as the objects of judicial investigation, should transfer to them ' the guilt and the sufferings which he might with far greater truth...attributed to a sect whose odious memory was almost extinguished1.' An able living writer also, the author of the 'History of the Romans under the Empire8,'... | |
 | Richard M. Mitchell - 1893 - 496 pages
...natural was it for Tacitus, in the time of Hadrian, to appropriate to the Christians the guilt and the sufferings which he might, with far greater truth...sect whose odious memory was almost extinguished. Whatever opinions may be entertained of this conjecture (for it is no more than a conjecture), it is... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1900 - 716 pages
...it for Tacitus, in the time of Hadrian. to appropriate to the Christians the guilt and the suffering which he might, with far greater truth and justice,...a sect whose odious memory was almost extinguished I 4. "Whatever opinion may be entertained of this conjecture (for it is no more than a conjecture),... | |
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Jerusalem ; whilst those of Jesus, known by the more celebrated name of Christians, diffused themselves over the Roman Empire. How natural was it for Tacitus, in the time of Hadrian, to appropriate to the Christians the guilt and the sufferings which... 
