The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶265
It is my design to comprise in the present chapter a religious war of two hundred and fifty years, to represent the ecclesiastical and political schism of the Oriental sects, and to introduce their clamorous or sanguinary contests, by a modest inquiry into the doctrines of the primitive church.Read in context ›
Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #734 (Milman edition) — public domain
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