 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 Eclectic Review - Página 459editado por - 1817Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 páginas
...the Roman religion is true of nearly the whole ancient world. " The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered...false ; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced, not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord."f Far different... | |
 | John Wade - 1835 - 862 páginas
...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...equally false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord."* Further on he... | |
 | William Paley - 1836 - 626 páginas
...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 páginas
...and by the habits of 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 true ; by tlie philosopher, as equally false ; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 976 páginas
...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...equally 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... | |
 | 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 - 658 páginas
...historian more false in all its parts than Gibbon's declaration, that ' the various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered...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... | |
 | James Napier Bailey - 1840 - 250 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 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
...custom a dead letter in all ages : it had rarely been enforced. " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered...equally false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." Pliny, regardless... | |
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