 | William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 436 pages
...the matter which is given by Mr. Gibbon : " 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 magistrate as equally useful :" and I would ask,from which of these three classes of men, were the... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 388 pages
...the matter which is given by Mr Gibbon : '* 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 magistrate as equally useful:" and I would ask from which of these three classes of men were the Christian... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - Education - 1815 - 598 pages
...Gibbon has concisely stated the fact, the various modes of worship which, before the birth of Jesus prevailed in the heathen world, " were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false."* And when he adds to this statement, that they were regarded " by the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1817 - 738 pages
...the matter. «' «* The various modes of worship," s'aye Mr. Gibbto, '* wblck -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 devout p^olytheist,... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1819 - 626 pages
...been by Mr. Gibbon, in the following words. "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. And thus toleration produced... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 408 pages
...the matter which is given by Mr. Gibbon : " 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 :" and I woufd ask from which... | |
 | William Paley - Apologetics - 1824 - 426 pages
...the matter which is given by Mr. Gibbon : " 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 :" and I would ask from which... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 972 pages
...historian of the Roman Empire observes : " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Romau generations ; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Chri philosopher, as equally false ; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." (Gibbon's Rome, vol. i.... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - Bible - 1825 - 478 pages
...the matter which is given by Mr. Gibbon: "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:" and I would ask from which... | |
 | 1825 - 600 pages
...of our own country in the present age. ' 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 devout Polytheist, though... | |
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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. 
