 | Robert Adam - 1809 - 520 페이지
...Let. Tom. 23. mem.; and another memoir on the same subject, and by the same author, in Tom. 18. mem. which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered...false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." 1 From which it would appear, that the wisest men of those days, wiser far than some of later times,... | |
 | Liber - 1809 - 372 페이지
...this occasion, and laid the foundation of his future .grandeur. Holcroft's Travek. THE various forms of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the_ people, as equally true; by the .philosopher, as equally false; aud by the magistrate as equally... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 436 페이지
...measure depended. I am willing to accept the account of the matter which is given by Mr. Gibbon : " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful :" and I would ask,from which... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 388 페이지
...measure depended. I am willing to accept the account of the matter which is given by Mr Gibbon : '* The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful:" and I would ask from which... | |
 | 1811 - 572 페이지
...Gibbon obserres that "all the idolatrous systems df the heathen world-were considered by the common people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the politician as equally useful ;" and though Dr. C. does not seem to go this length with regard to the... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1870 - 596 페이지
...and dooming its victim to moral indifference and mental stagnation. Although it may be true that " the various modes of worship which prevailed in the...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful," yet judged by the intellectual life which it has fostered, the Christian religion must be regarded... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1817 - 738 페이지
...gtvn a true account of the matter. «' «* The various modes of worship," s'aye Mr. Gibbto, '* wblck -prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. — The devout p^olytheist, though fondly attached to his national rites, admitted, with implicit faith,... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1817 - 612 페이지
...stated the fact, the various modes of worship which, before the birth of Jesus, prevailed in the heathen world, " were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false."* And when he adds to this statement, that they were regarded " by the magistrate as equally useful," he... | |
 | Robert Adam - 1818 - 494 페이지
...and another memoir on the same subject, and by the same author, in, Tom. 18. mem. some truth, that "the various modes of worship which prevailed in the...false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful."* From which it would appear, that the wisest men of those days, wiser far than some of later times,... | |
 | Edward William Grinfield - 1818 - 634 페이지
...creed. Thus, as Mr. Gibbon expresses it, " The various forms of worship which prevailed in the Heathen world, were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the legislators as equally useful." Let any reflecting Theist... | |
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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... 
