 | 1776 - 586 sider
...the ableft orators were not apprehenfive of giving offence to their hearers, by expofmg that doftrine as an idle and extravagant opinion, which was rejected...with contempt by every man of a liberal education and underftanding *. " Since therefore the moft fublime efforts of philofophy can extend no farther than... | |
 | Elias Boudinot - 1801 - 366 sider
...life was never regulated by any serious conviction of the rewards or punishments of a future state. At the bar and in the senate of Rome, the ablest orators...every man of a liberal education and understanding."* Examine the laws of Lycurgus, so famous throughout the heathen world. Did he not establish, in some... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1810 - 462 sider
...life was never regulated by any serious conviction of the rewards or punishments of a future state. At the bar and in the senate of Rome the ablest orators...with contempt by every man of a liberal education and understanding53. 52 The pre-existence of human souls, so far at least as that doctrine is compatible... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 510 sider
...life was never regulated by any serious conviction of the rewards or punishments of a future state. At the bar and in the senate of Rome the ablest orators...apprehensive of giving offence to their hearers, by exposiug that doctrine as an idle and extravagant opinion, which was rejected with contempt by every... | |
 | Jerom Alley - 1826 - 786 sider
...character and station, " were not appre" hensive of giving offence to their hearers, by ex" posing that doctrine as an idle and extravagant " opinion...every " man of a liberal education and understanding f ." * If the Roman Satirists have justly expressed the sentiments of the multitude, the religious... | |
 | Jerom Alley - 1826 - 712 sider
...character and station, " were not appre" hensive of giving offence to their hearers, by ex" posing that doctrine as an idle and extravagant " opinion...contempt by every " man of a liberal education and understandingf." * If the Roman Satirists have justly expressed the sentiments of the multitude, the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 474 sider
...life was never regulated by any serious conviction of the rewards or punishments of a future state. At the bar and in the senate of Rome, the ablest orators...was rejected with contempt by every man of a liberal edu- CHAP, cation and understandingg. xv. Since therefore the most sublime efforts of philoso- among... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sider
...senate of me tlie ablest orators were not apprehensive of giving off"iice to their hearers by losing s the people.' (¡•nipt by every man of a liberal education and understanding. Siuce, therefore, the most sublime... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 sider
...life was never regulated by any serious conviction of the rewards or punishments of a future state. At the bar and in the senate of Rome the ablest orators...apprehensive of giving offence to their hearers, by exposing tijat doctrine as an idle and extravagant opinion, which was rejected with contempt by every man of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 588 sider
...was never regulated by any serious conviction of the rewards or punishments of a future stale. At tie bar and in the senate of Rome the ablest orators were...with contempt by every man of a liberal education and understanding.(53) Since therefore the most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than... | |
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At the bar and in the senate of Rome the ablest orators were not apprehensive of giving offence to their hearers by exposing that doctrine as an idle and extravagant opinion, which was rejected with contempt by every man of a liberal education and understanding. 
