 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
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 450 pages
...part of theii subjects ; 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 and that this toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." And Mr.... | |
 | 1861 - 686 pages
...worst examples of this was afforded by the Roman empire, where " the various modes of worship were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...false, and by the magistrate as equally useful."* And the statesmen of the later empire, yielding to the cosmopolitan character of the age, as they added... | |
 | George Frederick Playter - 1862 - 440 pages
...to be directed by it. t " The various mode* of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were nil considered by the people as equally true : by the philosopher, as equally false ; anil by the magirtratr, as equally useful."— riibboif a Dticline ami Fall, chapter n. IN CANADA.... | |
 | George Frederick Playter - 1862 - 438 pages
...modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally trne : by the philosopher, as equally false ; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.' - — Gibbon's Decline and Fall, chapter ti. » is hindered at once. He must see that there is but... | |
 | Thomas Pearson - 1863 - 344 pages
...paganism of ancient Rome, says, " 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." The comment of some one is, " after eighteen centuries of the Gospel, we seem unhappily to be coming... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1865 - 510 pages
...in the creation of the 7 " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true ; by the...false ; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." (Gibbon's "Decline and Fall"; ch. ii.) ' See Abp. Whately's "Essay on some of the Difficulties in the... | |
 | Rev. Henry Greene - 1866 - 558 pages
...disguised the sentiments of an Atheist under sacerdotal robes." There were priests ; but " all religions were considered by the people as equally true, by...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful," while gladiators, slaves, actors, buffoons, and strangers, made up the rest of the population. From... | |
 | Taylor W.F. and sons - 1868 - 108 pages
...of the Roman Empire : — " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true ; by the...equally false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." Looking back... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1869 - 542 pages
...Under the heathen empire, as Gibbon tells us in his sarcastic style, ' the various forms of worship were considered, by the people as equally true, by...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' The standard of modern liberal policy oscillates uneasily between the second and third of these varieties... | |
 | 1869 - 668 pages
...various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered as equally trii«, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful" (i. 165, ed. 1854). Compare the following sentence of Dean Milman's: — "The sins of the citizens... | |
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