 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.  The Quarterly Review - Sayfa 241840Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Thomas Pearson - 1863 - 328 sayfa
...ancient Rome, says, " 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." The comment of some one is, " after eighteen centuries of the Gospel, we seem unhappily to be coming... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1865 - 492 sayfa
...creation of the 7 " The various modes of worship which 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." (Gibbon's "Decline and Fall"; ch. ii.) ' See Abp. Whately's "Essay on some of the Difficulties in the... | |
 | Rev. Henry GREENE - 1866 - 475 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Taylor W.F. and sons - 1868
...Empire : — " 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." Looking back... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1869 - 422 sayfa
...empire, as Gibbon tells us in his sarcastic style, ' the various forms of worship were considered, by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...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... | |
 | 1869
...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... | |
 | 1870
...has planted in it the sceptic's paradise, where " the various modes of worship were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...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... | |
 | William Paley, John Mackenzie Bacon - 1870
...follows :— "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." From which of these three classes could the Christian missionaries look for protection or impunity... | |
 | Charles BRADLAUGH - 1870 - 65 sayfa
...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 philosopher...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... | |
 | George Smith Drew - 1871
...the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Boman world were all considered by the people ai equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful," — describes the policy of the Romnns from the beginning of their conquests. — Comp. Giesclcr, Ecc.... | |
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