He showed that none of that class has either depth, ardor, or sincerity; that, their intellectual culture being slight and their erudition a simple varnish, they must remain, in short, manikins who produce the effect and make the gesture of the enlightened beings that they are not. — from Strong as Death by Guy de Maupassant
note of the Church historian Eusebius d
This tradition depends upon a note of the Church historian Eusebius (d. about 340 A.D. ), according to which Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis in Asia Minor, learnt from the “elder John” that Mark had set forth what he had heard from Peter, and what this latter [ 216 ] had in turn heard from the “Lord.” — from The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews
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