 | 1807 - 772 pàgines
...presence, is att?!>tcdonly by a sii'glc sense— ^-ouf sight ; -.vhuc tbe real i resenee itself Ь disproved by three of our senses — the sight, the touch, and the raste. The various aricl-s of the Roniish erred disappeared 1'ke a drtam ; and after я full conviction,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pàgines
...argument against the doctrine of transubstantiation : that the text of Scripture which seems to inculcate the real presence is attested only by a single sense...our senses — the sight, the touch, and the taste.' Chillingworth would not thus unskilfully and illogically have confounded the evidence of sense, as... | |
 | 1840 - 772 pàgines
...of Scripture " — he alleges—" which seems to incul" cate the real presence, is attested only hy a single sense — our sight ; " while the real presence itself is disproved hy three of our senses — the " sight, the touch, and the taste!" Now, is it possihle that Gihhon,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pàgines
...my conversion ; yet I must observe, that it was principally effected by my private reflections. — The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared...received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne." He now pursued his studies with the utmost avidity, and carefully perused and examined nearly the complete... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pàgines
...against the doctrine of transubstantiation — that the text of scripture which seems to inculcate the real presence, is attested only by a single sense...touch, and the taste. The various articles of the Romisli creed disappeared like a dream ; and after a full conviction, on Christmasday 1754 I received... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pàgines
...against the doctrine of transubstantiation — that the text of scripture which seems to inculcate the real presence, is attested only by a single sense...touch, and the taste. The various articles of the Romisli creed disappeared like a dream ; and after a full conviction, on Christmasday 1754 I received... | |
 | 1837 - 454 pàgines
...philosophical argument against transubstantiation ; that the text of scripture, which seems to indicate the real presence, is attested only by a single sense—...disproved by three of our senses — the sight, the touch, the taste." — Gibbon's Memoirs of his Life, Tol. ip 58. But let us consider what would be the conclusion... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pàgines
...argument against the doetlicc of transubstnnthuiun : lhal the. text of Scripture, which seems to inculcate the real presence, is attested only by a single sense...real presence itself is disproved by three of our seirse:. — the sieht, the touch, and the taste. The variotn articles of the Koniish creed disappeared... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pàgines
...principles of superficial readers, and (what is worse) to damp the moral enthusiasm of youth, by shakof a philosophical argument against the doctrine of transubstantiation...our senses — the sight, the touch, and the taste. (Ibid. p. 58.) That this " philosophical argument " should have had any influence on the mind of Gibbon,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pàgines
...argument against the doctrine of iransubstantiation ; that the text of Scripture, which seems to inculcate the real presence, is attested only by a single sense...three of our senses — the sight, the touch, and the tasle. (Ibid. p. 58.) That this " philosophical argument" should have had any influence on the mind... | |
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I still remember my solitary transport at the discovery of a philosophical argument against the doctrine of transubstantiation: that the text of scripture, which seems to inculcate the real presence, is attested only by a single sense— our sight; while... 
