 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
 | Theodor Goldstücker - 1879 - 306 pages
...Gibbon describes when saying, " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Eoman world were all considered by the people as equally true ; by the...false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful." The Mahabharata is therefore the source of all the Puranas, the Parana emphatically so called, and... | |
 | Theodor Goldstuecker - 1879 - 614 pages
...Gibbon describes when saying, " 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." The Mahabharata is therefore the source of all the Puranas, th« Purana emphatically so called, and... | |
 | 1880 - 672 pages
...I can make but one. Gibbon says of the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world that " all were considered by the people as equally...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." There is no violence in the assumption that Judge Black has been so absorbed by the thought that the... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero, John Houghton Swainson - 1880 - 336 pages
...compare with Gibbon's language ' 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 ' — he goes on to say of the 2nd facilius inter parûtes in echóla quam extra in foro ferre possunt... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pages
...religions 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 philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' If he was an infidel, he was such from conviction, from temperament, from environment. A lover of order,... | |
 | Theophilus Dwight Hall - 1880 - 228 pages
...to the Roman yoke." [2.] " 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." [3.] " The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed, in peace, their local and... | |
 | Edward Payson Thwing - 1891 - 74 pages
...Gibbon, speaking of the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman Empire, remarks that " they were considered by the people as equally true, by...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." " After eighteen centuries of the Gospel," some one has added, " we seem unhappily to be coming back... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...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...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' Some feeling of this kind constituted the whole of Gibbon's religious belief : the philosophers of... | |
 | Lucian (of Samosata.) - 1882 - 378 pages
...pity and wonder. ' The various modes of worship,' to use a famous sentence of Gibbon's,1 ' were all considered by the people as equally true ; by the...false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful.' Religion had ceased to exercise moral correction or control over men. Thinking men had long ago given... | |
 | 1882 - 820 pages
...of the Paganism of Rome : " 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." But upon what evidence is this theory of non-responsibility built up ? Has it the logic of reasoning,... | |
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