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...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. CVIl. 1l,h &0 doubts so eloquently well. CVHI. Yet, peace he with their ashes, — for by them. If merited, the penalty...

...shake a throne. The other, deep and slow, exhansting thought, And hiving wisdom with each stndious year, In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought,...shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn ereed with solemn sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath,...

...unlettered Luther, "bellowinginbadLatin," but rather, the cultured and rationalising Erasmus — " Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer, The lord of irony, that master spell — " who appears as the chief apostle of the Reformation, and the principles abounding...

...everything except Christianity is embellished by Gibbon's pen. Lord Byron wrote of him that 68 ,, » . » Shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer; " lines which show Byron's estimate of the attitude which Gibbon assumed toward the Christian faitrL...

...represents what is in reality an abuse as an inevitable consequence. Byron well described him as " Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer, The lord of irony, that master-spell. But the accusations of having intentionally distorted facts or garbled authorities he has refuted in...

...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. cvn The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And...stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear, And doomed him to the zealot's ready Hell, Which answers to all doubts so eloquently well.2 Historian,...

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