 From enthusiasm to imposture, the step is perilous and slippery : the daemon of Socrates affords a memorable instance, how a wise man may deceive himself, how a good man may deceive others, how the conscience may slumber in a mixed and middle state between...  The Annals of Jamaica - Page 195by George Wilson Bridges - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...From enthusiasm to imposture, the step is perilous and slippery: the daemon of Socrates151 affords a memorable instance, how a wise man may deceive himself,...conscience may slumber in a mixed and middle state between self-illusion and voluntary fraud. 154 The Christians, rashly enough, have assigned to Mahomet a tame... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 526 pages
...tuufuitn) of the philosopher, is clearly taught in the Memorabilia of Xenophon. The ideas of CHAP, memorable instance, how a wise man may deceive *-•...conscience may slumber in a mixed and middle state between self-illusion and voluntary fraud. Charity may believe that the original motives of Mahomet were those... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 526 pages
...tne Memorabilia of Xenophon. The ideas of the CHAP, memorable instance, how a wise man may deceive L- himself, how a good man may deceive others, how the...conscience may slumber in a mixed and middle state between self-illusion and voluntary fraud. Charity may believe that the original motives of Mahomet were those... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 406 pages
...God. From enthusiasm to imposture the step is perilous and slippery ; the demon of Socrates affords a memorable instance how a wise man may deceive himself,...conscience may slumber in a mixed and middle state between selfdelnsion and a voluntary fraud. Charity may believe that the original motives of Mahomet were those... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 pages
...God. From enthusiasm to imposture the step is perilous and slippery; the demon of Socrates affords a memorable instance how a wise man may deceive himself,...conscience may slumber in a mixed and middle state between selfdelusion and a voluntary fraud. Charity may believe that the original motives of Mahomet were those... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 404 pages
...God. From enthusiasm to imposture the step is perilous and slippery ; the demon of Socrates affords a memorable instance how a wise man may deceive himself,...conscience may slumber in a mixed and middle state between selfdelusion and a voluntary fraud. Charity may believe that the original motives of Mahomet were those... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 410 pages
...God. From enthusiasm to imposture the step is perilous and slippery ; the demon of Socrates affords a memorable instance how a wise man may deceive himself, how a good m^nmay deceive others, how the conscience may slumber in a mixed and middle state between selfdelusion... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Africa - 1831 - 362 pages
...imposture, the step is perilous and slippery, and the demon of Socrates affords a memorable instance how the conscience may slumber in a mixed and middle state between self-illusion and voluntary fraud.' It may be questioned whether this remark will bear the test of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1830 - 442 pages
...(4) From enthusiasm to imposture, the step is perilous and slippery; the demon of Socrates(5) affords a memorable instance, how a wise man may deceive himself, how a (1) The Greek) and Latins have invented and propagated the vulgar and ridiculous story that Mahomet's... | |
 | William Bullen (solicitor.) - 1843 - 152 pages
...slippery ; the demon of Socrates affords a memorable instance how a wise man may deceive himself — how the conscience may slumber in a mixed and middle state, between self-illusion and voluntary fraud.* * * * Of his last years, ambition was the ruling passion ; and... | |
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