 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 494 sayfa
...spirit of Iby the habits^ pfc , the $Mperstitipus, part of their toleration, ^gjyggtg,, Tfbfcivatjous modes of worship, which . prevailed; in, the Roman world, were all considered by-Tthe people as-equally true ; by tie philosopher, as equally jfalse ; and by the magistrate, .as... | |
 | Liber - 1809 - 372 sayfa
...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 sayfa
...business or pleasure, of publick or private life, with all the offices and amusements of society." Upon the due celebration also of its rites, the people...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... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1815 - 598 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1817 - 738 sayfa
...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 by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. — The devout p^olytheist,... | |
 | Robert Adam - 1818 - 494 sayfa
...mem.; 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...all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful."* From which it would appear,... | |
 | Edward William Grinfield - 1818 - 634 sayfa
...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 consider whether this was not an unnatural... | |
 | William Jones - 1819 - 626 sayfa
...subject cannot be more fitly and aptly expressed than it has been by Mr. Gibbon, in the following words. "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...considered by the people as equally true ; by the philosopher as equally false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 426 sayfa
...of the Jewish, was more applicable to the heathen establishment ; " Hi ritus, quoquo modo indueti, antiquitate defenduntur." It was also a splendid and...all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful :" and I would ask from which... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 408 sayfa
...advantage which they drew from it. " It was moreover interwoven," as Mr. Gibbon rightly represents K, " with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of...all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful :" and I woufd ask from which... | |
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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. 
