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
| 1851 - 616 páginas
...the superstitious part of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Itoman 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. The superstition... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 páginas
...principles. ' 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... | |
| William Paley - 1851 - 766 páginas
...various modes of worship which prevailed in the Koinan world, were all considered liy the people a» "But nnw having no more place in th :** and I would nskfrom which of these three classes of men were the Christian missionaries to look... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1852 - 666 páginas
...habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevai'id in the Roman world, were all considered by the people,...false ; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition... | |
| John Smythe Memes - 1853 - 752 páginas
...accept the account of the matter which is given by Mr Gibbon : " The various modes of worship which q q s^sTq : " and I would ask, from which of these three classes of men were the Christian missionaries to look... | |
| 1853 - 588 páginas
...Nid oedd sefydliadau y Rhode Island ychwaith yn ddiberygl y 1 " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true, by the phUoiopher ae equally falle, and by the magistrate ал equally uaeful."— GIBBOH. tro h wn. Gorfu... | |
| Thomas Pearson - 1854 - 640 páginas
...others. Gibbon, speaking of the paganism of ancient Rome, says, " the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by...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 back... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 páginas
...habits of the superstitious, part toleration. of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by...equally false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition... | |
| Robert Hare - 1855 - 556 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...false ; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced, not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. 1291. "The superstition... | |
| Frederick Denison Maurice - 1855 - 692 páginas
...of the book itself. Gibbon has said in a well-known passage : ' The ' various modes of worship that prevailed in the Roman ' world were all considered...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.... | |
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