 | Henry Stebbing - 1833 - 392 페이지
...superstitious part of their subjects ; that the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally...false, and by the magistrate as equally useful ;" and that " this toleration produced not * Mosheim, cent. :i. part ic 2, t Bishop Kayo's Hist. illust. from... | |
 | Robert Haldane - 1834 - 526 페이지
...notions of Polytheism. " The various modes of worship," says Mr Gibbon, "which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. — The devout polytheist, though fondly attached tohis national rites, admitted, with implicit faith,... | |
 | John Wade - 1835 - 862 페이지
...the superstitious part of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the known world were all considered by the people as equally...only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord."* Further on he continues, " Notwithstanding the fashionable irreligion which prevailed in the age of... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 페이지
...true of nearly the whole ancient world. " The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally...produced, not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord."f Far different is the case with Christianity. It propounds no equivocal doctrines. It recognises... | |
 | William Paley - 1836 - 626 페이지
...the matter which is given by Mr. Gibbon: "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Raman world, were all considered by the people as equally...philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equallv useful : and I would ask from which of these tliree classes of men were the Christian missionaries... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 페이지
...worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered, by the people, as equally true ; by tlie philosopher, as equally false ; and by the magistrate,...only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people ... , . . f Of the people. was not imbittcrcd by any mixture of theological... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 페이지
...parts than Gibbon's declaration, that ' the various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' On the contrary, the popular feeling enlisted itself on all sides, as it always must do, in the worship... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 976 페이지
...Gibbon : — " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered bv the people as equally true, by the philosopher as...false, and by the magistrate as equally useful:" and I would ask from which of these three classes of men were the Christian missionaries to look for protection... | |
 | James Napier Bailey - 1840 - 250 페이지
...applicable to that of the Egyptians. " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the" Egyptian " world, were all considered by the people as equally...false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."* Juvenal thus ridicules the superstitious character of the Egyptian populace :— Quis nescit, Voluei... | |
 | 1840 - 700 페이지
...declaration, that 1 the various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considercd by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' On the contrary, the popular feeling enlisted itself on all sides, as it always must do, in the worship... | |
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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. 
