 | William Paley - Theology - 1838 - 976 pages
...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...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 protection... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 658 pages
...epigram was ever hazarded by an historian more false in all its parts than Gibbon's declaration, that ' the various modes of worship, which prevailed in the...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 - Bible and science - 1840 - 250 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pages
...Uun*, I. xv. xvi. a nd xvii. ened, 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 j the people, as equally true; by the philosopher as L equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally... | |
 | 1840 - 700 pages
...epigram was ever hazarded by an historian more false in all its parts than Gibbon's 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 as equally false, and by the magistrate... | |
 | William Sewell - 1841 - 408 pages
...epigram was ever hazarded by an historian more false in all its parts than Gibbon's declaration, that " the various modes of worship, which prevailed in the...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 pages
...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 - Christianity - 1844 - 284 pages
...recognised by the Romans, had been by custom a dead letter in all ages : it had rarely been enforced. " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." Pliny, regardless alike of the homage due to God and to the law of the empire, expelled from his heart... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...historian : Gibbon had insidiously, though too unequivocally, evinced his adoption of infidel principles. ' paleness of his brow, thinly covered with gray hairs. The music ceased : he remarks, 'considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by... | |
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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. 
