Tuesday, July 12, 2016

 

Hagiography

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter XXXVII, note 17 (on Jerome):
The stories of Paul, Hilarion, and Malchus, by the same author, are admirably told: and the only defect of these pleasing compositions is the want of truth and common sense.



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