...worship," as Gibbon, tersely, and perhaps with great general correctness, has put the case, "were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." The people, as they were generally the first addressed, would, in all likelihood, be the first to discover...

...progressing towards that state at which Gibbon says pagan Rome had arrived, when all religion was regarded by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. Infidelity is not the only spirit that is awake, nor is it, perhaps, the most dangerous and fatal....

...progressing towards that state at which Gibbon says pagan Rome had arrived, when all religion was regarded by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, nud by the magistrate as equally useful. Infidelity is not the unly spirit that is awake, nor ¡s it,...

...second chapter with the remark, that " the various modes of worship that prevailed within its limits were considered by the people as equally true, by...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus, he continues, toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, buteven religious concord....

...world, during the decline of the Empire ; and which, to adopt Gibbon's sarcastic epigram, "were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." But the history of Popery and its baneful consequences in past ages, is profitable only so far as it...

...blaspheme. " The various modes of worship (says Mr. Gibbon) 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." Taking this very low and unworthy view of religion, we doubt if our legislators will ever find that...

...Gibbon, as existing in the later days of the Roman empire, when all systems of religion were regarded by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the state as equally indifferent. It is scarcely necessary to say, that we regard such a scheme as alike...

...principles. ' The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all,' he remarks, ' considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' Some feeling of this kind constituted the whole of his religious belief; and hence in the fifteenth...

...superstitious part of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Itoman 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. The superstition...

...various modes of worship which prevailed in the Koinan world, were all considered liy the people a» "But nnw having no more place in th :** and I would nskfrom which of these three classes of men were the Christian missionaries to look...