The miscellaneous works of the late reverend and learned Conyers Middleton, D.D.; Principal librarian of the University of Cambridge. In five volumes. Vol. I. [-V.]. - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1755 Excerpt: ... ' that in the Temple at Epidaurus, there were "many columns anciently of this kind, and fix "of them remaining to his time, inscribed with "the names of men and women, who had been "cured by the God, with an account of their, "several cases, and the method of their cure: "and that there was an old pillar besides, which "stood apart, dedicated to the memory of Hip"polytus, who had been raised from the "dead 1." Strabo also, another grave writer, informs us, "that these Temples were con"stantly filled with the sick, imploring the help "of the God: and that they had tables hang"ing around them, in which all the miraculous "cures were described 2." There is a remarkable fragment of one of these tables still extant, and exhibited by Gruter in his collection, as it was found in the ruins of Æsculapius's Temple, in the island of the Tyber, in Rome; which gives an account of two blind men restored to sight by Æsculapius, in the open view, and with the loud acclamations of the people, acknowledging the manifest power of the God. Upon which the learned Montfaucon makes this reflection, that in this are seen, either the wiles of the Devil, or the tricks 1 Xrr,hxi J arixsrui si1o; T© a'« Tui n xafMoi/luv, xTui Tv «rspi£oX(?, To fi.i dyotiai xj uiaxeifuliuii ajimxvi, iv o's wa» tnXsoic., lit i/xa Si iAoi7nxi,&C. yifafApevai Tvy/asuai aX Sifa Corinth. 1. ii. c. xxvfi. veicu. Strab. 1. viii. p. 57J. 2 K'i Tj lifh vrtff.s iX"r Edit. Amstel. of Pagan Priests, suborning men to counterfeit diseases and miraculous cures i. Now though nothing can support the belief and credit of miracles more authentically, than publick monuments, erected in proof and memory of them, at the time when they were performed; yet, in defiance of that authority, it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1755 Excerpt: ... ' that in the Temple at Epidaurus, there were "many columns anciently of this kind, and fix "of them remaining to his time, inscribed with "the names of men and women, who had been "cured by the God, with an account of their, "several cases, and the method of their cure: "and that there was an old pillar besides, which "stood apart, dedicated to the memory of Hip"polytus, who had been raised from the "dead 1." Strabo also, another grave writer, informs us, "that these Temples were con"stantly filled with the sick, imploring the help "of the God: and that they had tables hang"ing around them, in which all the miraculous "cures were described 2." There is a remarkable fragment of one of these tables still extant, and exhibited by Gruter in his collection, as it was found in the ruins of Æsculapius's Temple, in the island of the Tyber, in Rome; which gives an account of two blind men restored to sight by Æsculapius, in the open view, and with the loud acclamations of the people, acknowledging the manifest power of the God. Upon which the learned Montfaucon makes this reflection, that in this are seen, either the wiles of the Devil, or the tricks 1 Xrr,hxi J arixsrui si1o; T© a'« Tui n xafMoi/luv, xTui Tv «rspi£oX(?, To fi.i dyotiai xj uiaxeifuliuii ajimxvi, iv o's wa» tnXsoic., lit i/xa Si iAoi7nxi,&C. yifafApevai Tvy/asuai aX Sifa Corinth. 1. ii. c. xxvfi. veicu. Strab. 1. viii. p. 57J. 2 K'i Tj lifh vrtff.s iX"r Edit. Amstel. of Pagan Priests, suborning men to counterfeit diseases and miraculous cures i. Now though nothing can support the belief and credit of miracles more authentically, than publick monuments, erected in proof and memory of them, at the time when they were performed; yet, in defiance of that authority, it ...
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