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 - Page 72edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
| 1811 - 576 pages
...Gibbon observes that "all the idolatrous systems of the heathen world were considered by the common, people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the politician as equally useful ;" and though Dr. C. does pot seem to go this length with regard to the... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 pages
...'the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the...equally false ; and by the magistrate, as equally usefu1. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence; but even religious concord. of the... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1817 - 738 pages
...gtvn a true account of the matter. «' «* The various modes of worship," s'aye Mr. Gibbto, '* wblck -prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. — The devout p^olytheist, though fondly attached to his national rites, admitted, with implicit faith,... | |
| Robert Adam - 1818 - 494 pages
...mem.; and another memoir on the same subject, and by the same author, in Tom. 18. mem. some truth, that "the various modes of worship which prevailed...false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful."* From which it would appear, that the wisest men of those days, wiser far than some of later times,... | |
| William Jones - 1819 - 626 pages
...subject cannot be more fitly and aptly expressed than it has been by Mr. Gibbon, in the following words. "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...equally false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord."* • Decline... | |
| William Paley - 1823 - 396 pages
...The various modes of worship 'which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered i -/-' < i• 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... | |
| William Paley - 1824 - 408 pages
...measure depended. I am willing to accept the account of the matter which is given by Mr. Gibbon : " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful :" and I woufd ask from which of these three classes of men were the Christian missionaries to look... | |
| William Paley - 1824 - 426 pages
...measure depended. I am willing to accept the account of the matter which is given by Mr. Gibbon : " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...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... | |
| 1825 - 600 pages
...8vo. (Butterworth.) gard to Pagan toleration, to the history of our own country in the present age. ' The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. The devout Polytheist, though fondly attached to his national rites, admitted, with implicit; faith,... | |
| 1825 - 594 pages
...remarks of Gibbon, in regard to Pagan toleration, to the history of our own country in the present age. "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...equally false, and by the, magistrate as equally useful. The devout Polytheist, though fondly attached to his national rites, admitted, with implicit faith,... | |
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