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 - Side 459redigert av - 1817Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 sider
...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 sider
...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 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 sider
...readily accept the 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 sider
...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;...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...views of an infidel who wrote only to blaspheme. " The various modes of worship (says Mr. Gibbon) which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by...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... | |
| 1848 - 588 sider
...the Roman world, during the decline of the Empire ; and which, to adopt Gibbon's sarcastic epigram, "were all considered by the people as equally true,...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." But the history of Popery and its baneful consequences in past ages, is profitable only so far as it... | |
| John David Macbride - 1848 - 1080 sider
...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...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus, he continues, toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, buteven religious concord.... | |
| 1848 - 596 sider
...Gibbon, as existing in the later days of the Roman empire, when all systems of religion were regarded by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the state as equally indifferent. It is scarcely necessary to say, that we regard such a scheme as alike... | |
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