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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XXVII: Civil Wars, Reign Of Theodosius
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308,) and is therefore much less likely to produce the author of a new heresy.] [Footnote 54: Exprobrabatur mulieri viduae nimia religio, et diligentius culta divinitas, (Pacat.

in Panegyr.Vet.xii.

29.) Such was the idea of a humane, though ignorant, polytheist.] [Footnote 55: One of them was sent in Sillinam insulam quae ultra Britannianest.

What must have been the ancient condition of the rocks of Scilly?
(Camden's Britannia, vol.ii.p.

1519.)] [Footnote 56: The scandalous calumnies of Augustin, Pope Leo, &c., which Tillemont swallows like a child, and Lardner refutes like a man, may suggest some candid suspicions in favor of the older Gnostics.] [Footnote 57: Ambros.tom.ii.Epist.xxiv.


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