 | 1851 - 508 pages
...our Lord's miracles") — who, " it is stated by Tacitus (says Hume), cured a blind man in Alexandria by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere touch of his foot" (Hume's " Essnys," sect. xp 2). Voltaire also, referring to the same passage (Tacitus " Hist." c. iv.... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...all profane history, is that which Tacitus reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man in Alexandria by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere...have recourse to the Emperor for these miraculous cures. The story may be seen in that fine historian ; * •where every circumstance seems to add weight... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 pages
...all profane history, is that which Tacitus reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man in Alexandria by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere...have recourse to the emperor for these miraculous cures. The story may be seen in that fine historian; where every circumstance seems to add weight to... | |
 | William Howitt - Religions - 1863 - 510 pages
...reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man at Alexandria by means of his spittle, and a lame man by a mere touch of his foot, in obedience to a vision of...enjoined them to have recourse to the emperor for their miraculous and extraordinary cures. The story may be seen in that fine historian, where every... | |
 | William Howitt - 1863 - 558 pages
...reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man at Alexandria by means of his spittle, and a lame man by a mere touch of his foot, in obedience to a vision of...enjoined them to have recourse to the emperor for their miraculous and extraordinary cures. The story may be seen in that fine historian, where every... | |
 | Great Britain - 1864 - 974 pages
...trustworthy, adduces the miracle " which Tacitus reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man in Alexandria by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere touch of his foot." This " Elpisticos " repeats, without inverted commas, only altering the first four words into "it is... | |
 | Albert Barnes - History - 1868 - 468 pages
...all profane history is that which Tacitus reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man in Alexandria by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere...have recourse to the emperor for these miraculous cures. The story may be seen in that fine historian, where every circumstance seems to add weight to... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh, Anthony Collins, John Watts - Free thought - 1871 - 360 pages
...that which Tacitus reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man in Alexandria by means of his epitlle, and a lame man by the mere touch of his foot; in obedience to a vision ot she god Serapis, who had enjoined them to have recourse to the emper or for these miraculous cures.... | |
 | Thomas William Doane - Religion - 1882 - 648 pages
...good of mankind. Tacitus, the Roman historian, informs us that he cured a blind man in Alexandria, by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere touch of his foot. The words of Tacitus are as follows : " Vespasian passed some months at Alexandria, having resolved... | |
 | Isaac C. Hughes - Theological anthropology - 1891 - 470 pages
...named), is that which Tacitus reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man in Alexandria by means of spittle, and a lame man by the mere touch of his foot,...emperor for these miraculous and extraordinary cures. He also adds that " Suetonius gives the same account," but he does not tell us that Vespasian consulted... | |
| |
One of the best attested miracles in all profane history, is that which Tacitus reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man in Alexandria, by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere touch of his foot... 
