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An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, Form the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century (Volume 2)

An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, Form the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century (Volume 2)

Mosheim, Johann Lorenz

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ISBN10: 1150642394
ISBN13: 9781150642395
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.51 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1824. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PART II. INTERNAL HISTORY OF THE CHURCH. CHAPTER I. CONCERNING THE STATE OF LETTERS AND PHILOSOPHY DURING THIS CENTURY. i. The declining condition of the Grecian empire was fatal to the progress of letters and philosophy. Its rhetor glory and power diminished from day to day JS DEGREESIhe under the insults and usurpations of the Turks Orwk>and Saracens; and while the empire suffered by these attacks from without, it was consumed gradually by the internal pestilence of civil discord, by frequent seditions and conspiracies, and by those violent revolutions which shook from time to time the imperial throne, and were attended with the sudden fall and elevation of those that held the reins of government. So many foreign invasions, so many internal troubles, so many emperors dethroned, de Erived the political body of its strength and consistence, roke in upon the public order, rendered all things DEGREESprecarious, and dejecting the spirits of the nation, damped the fire of genius, and discouraged the efforts of literary ambition. There were however some empergrs, such as Alexius Comnenus, who seemed to cherish and encourage the drooping sciences, and whose zeal was seconded by several prelates who were willing to lend a supporting hand to the cause of letters. The controversies also that subsisted between the Greeks and Latins, obliged the former, amidst all their disadvantages, to a certain degree of application to study, and prevented them from abandoning entirely the culture of the sciences. And hence it is, that we find among the Greeks of this century some writers, at least, who have deserved well of the republic of letters. ID a. The sentence which begins with the words so many foreign, and ends with the words literary ambition, is added by the translator to render the

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