Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from t…

Edward Gibbon
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Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity. ✨ Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, M. Guizot (François), Sir William Smith (1862). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, p.15
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