 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 570 páginas
...of religious worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, (before the appearance of Christianity,) were all considered by the people as equally true,...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." This absurd polytheism gave place to Christianity and its wholesome influences. The effects of the... | |
 | D. Davidson - 1844 - 284 páginas
...all ages : it had rarely been enforced. " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally...only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." Pliny, regardless alike of the homage due to God and to the law of the empire, expelled from his heart... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...principles. ' The various modes of worship which prevniled in the Roman world were nil,' he remarks, 'considered by the people as equally true, by the...false, and by the' magistrate as equally useful.' Some feeling of this kind constituted the whole of Gibbon's religions belief : the philosophers of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 678 páginas
...the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally...by the philosopher, as equally false ; and by the 1 They were erected about the midway between Labor and Delhi. The conquests of Alexander in Hindostan... | |
 | Josiah William Smith - 1846 - 212 páginas
...account of the matter given by Gibbon: (8) " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosophers as equally false; and by the magistrates as equally useful." And from this statement we... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1847 - 456 páginas
...modes of worship," as Gibbon, tersely, and perhaps with great general correctness, has put the case, "were all considered by the people as equally true;...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." The people, as they were generally the first addressed, would, in all likelihood, be the first to discover... | |
 | 1847 - 780 páginas
...progressing towards that state at which Gibbon says pagan Rome had arrived, when all religion was regarded by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. Infidelity is not the only spirit that is awake, nor is it, perhaps, the most dangerous and fatal.... | |
 | 1847 - 856 páginas
...progressing towards that state at which Gibbon says pagan Rome had arrived, when all religion was regarded by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, nud by the magistrate as equally useful. Infidelity is not the unly spirit that is awake, nor ¡s it,... | |
 | M. A - 1848 - 878 páginas
...wrote only to blaspheme. " 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." Taking this very low and unworthy view of religion, we doubt if our legislators will ever find that... | |
 | John David Macbride - 1848 - 1080 páginas
...chapter with the remark, that " the various modes of worship that prevailed within its limits were considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus, he continues, toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, buteven religious concord. Such was the... | |
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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. 
