 The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.  The Catholic Record - Page 3281876Full view - About this book
 | William Paley - 1836 - 626 pages
...is given by Mr. Gibbon: "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Raman world, were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equallv useful : and I would ask from which of these tliree classes of men were the Christian missionaries... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 976 pages
...Gibbon : — " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered bv the people as equally true, by the philosopher as...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful:" and I would ask from which of these three classes of men were the Christian missionaries to look for... | |
 | James Napier Bailey - 1840 - 250 pages
...of the Egyptians. " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the" Egyptian " world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher...false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."* Juvenal thus ridicules the superstitious character of the Egyptian populace :— Quis nescit, Voluei... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 pages
...Gibbon's declaration, that ' the various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' On the contrary, the popular feeling enlisted itself on all sides, as it always must do, in the worship... | |
 | 1840 - 700 pages
...declaration, that 1 the various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considercd by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' On the contrary, the popular feeling enlisted itself on all sides, as it always must do, in the worship... | |
 | William Sewell - 1841 - 408 pages
...Gibbon's declaration, that " the various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." On the contrary, the popular feeling enlisted itself on all sides, as it always must do, in the worship... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 570 pages
...religious worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, (before the appearance of Christianity,) were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." This absurd polytheism gave place to Christianity and its wholesome influences. The effects of the... | |
 | D. Davidson - 1844 - 284 pages
...had rarely been enforced. " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher...equally false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." Pliny, regardless... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...principles. ' The various modes of worship which prevniled in the Roman world were nil,' he remarks, 'considered by the people as equally true, by the...false, and by the' magistrate as equally useful.' Some feeling of this kind constituted the whole of Gibbon's religions belief : the philosophers of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 678 pages
...part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true ; by the philosopher, as equally false ; and by the 1 They were erected about the midway between Labor and Delhi. The conquests of Alexander in Hindostan... | |
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