...what quiet shape it may assume in others. Gibbon, speaking of the paganism of ancient Rome, says, " the various modes of worship which prevailed in the...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...

...appeals to the evidence of Miracles. The reality of the miracles involved in the creation of the 7 " The various modes of worship which prevailed in 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...

...the sentiments of an Atheist under sacerdotal robes." There were priests ; but " all religions were considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful," while gladiators, slaves, actors, buffoons, and strangers, made up the rest of the population. From...

...to quote the opinion of Gibbon in his great work on the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire : — " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...equally false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." Looking back...

...part of their subjeets. The various modes of worship, -which prevailed 111 the liomuri world, were nil considered by the people as equally true ; by the...false ; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition...

...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 the...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...

...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...

...prosperity of their country in a great measure depended. (7) Mr. Gibbon's account is as follows :— "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." From which of these three classes could the Christian missionaries look for protection or impunity...

...and prosperous ; " and has planted in it the sceptic's paradise, where " the various modes of worship were all considered by the people as equally true,...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." But only the most frantic sceptic, with the most wonderful faculty of believing what he wished, and...

...world, in nearly the same words as he used to characterise the various modes of worship at Eome, " all considered by the people as equally true, by the...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." Pierre John George Cabanis, born at Conac, near Breves, 5th June, 1757, died 6th May, 1808, following...