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| Frederick Denison Maurice - 1855 - 692 sayfa
...passage : ' The ' various modes of worship that prevailed in the Roman ' world were all considered by the people as equally ' true, by the philosopher...false, and by the ' magistrate as equally useful.' I will not now speak of the first member of this triad. It does not directly concern our present business.... | |
| Charles Henry Crosse - 1855 - 166 sayfa
...worship prevailing in the Roman world ? Mr. Gibbon says that " these modes of worship were con" sidered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." What observation does Paley make upon this account ? Paley asks, "From which of these classes could... | |
| Robert Hare - 1855 - 484 sayfa
...their subjects. 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, #s equally useful. And thus toleration produced, not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.... | |
| David Davidson - 1857 - 804 sayfa
...been enforced. " 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. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." Pliny, regardless... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1857 - 684 sayfa
...of historians, that "the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful ; and this toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." It seems to... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 sayfa
...The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all,' he remarks, ' considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' Some feeling of this kind constituted the whole of his religious belief; and hence in the fifteenth... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1860 - 422 sayfa
...subjects ; that 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 ; and that this toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." And Mr.... | |
| 1861 - 686 sayfa
...of this was afforded by the Roman empire, where " the various modes of worship were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...false, and by the magistrate as equally useful."* And the statesmen of the later empire, yielding to the cosmopolitan character of the age, as they added... | |
| George Frederick Playter - 1862 - 436 sayfa
...directed by it. ,f " 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, ai equally useful.'' — Gibbon'* Decline and Fall, chapter ii. is hindered at once. He must see that... | |
| George Frederick Playter - 1862 - 438 sayfa
...modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally trne : by the philosopher, as equally false ; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.' - — Gibbon's Decline and Fall, chapter ti. » is hindered at once. He must see that there is but... | |
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