Note 055 The transactions of the council of Nice are related by the ancients, not only in a partial, but in a very imperfect manner. Such a picture as Fra Paolo would have drawn can never be recovered; but such rude sketches as have been traced by the pencil of bigotry, and that of reason, may be seen in Tillemont (Mem. Eccles. tom. vi. p. 669-759) and in Le Clerc (Bibliotheque Universelle, tom. x. p. 435-454).

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Note to Chapter 21 of Decline and Fall by Gibbon