 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1776 - 612 pages
...reafon ; but they refigned their actions to the commands of law and of cuftom. Viewing, with a fmile of pity and indulgence, the various errors of the vulgar, they diligently praclifed the ceremonies of their faihers, devoutly frequented the temples of the gods ; and fometimes... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1776 - 608 pages
...reafon ; but they refigned their actions to the commands of law and of cuftom. Viewing, with a fmile of pity and indulgence, the various errors of the vulgar, they diligently praflifed the ceremonies of their fathers, devoutly frequented the temples of the gods ; and fometimes... | |
 | Books - 1776 - 612 pages
...reafon j but they refigned their actions to the commands of law and of cuftom. Viewing, with a fmile of pity and indulgence, the various errors of the vulgar, they diligently pradliled the ceremonies of their fathers, devoutly frequented the temples of the gods ; and fometimes... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1776 - 526 pages
...reafon ; but they reiigned their actions to the cowir.auui of law and of ctiilom. Viewing, with a 'mile of pity and indulgence, the various errors of the vulgar, they diligently pradlifed the ceremonies of their fathers, devoutly frequented the temples of the gods ; and fometjmes... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...rank witli those of Behmen and Swedenborg, we may form an opinion how far Plato was entitled " to view with a smile of pity and indulgence the various errors of the vulgar." In respect to Xenophon, it may suffice to lefer to the very apposite, though in another view insidious,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 682 pages
...defended the religion of the state ; and urged a conformity to it to be the duty of every citizen. They " diligently practised the ceremonies of their...the sentiments of an atheist under the sacerdotal robes."1 It is true that insulated passages may be found in the writings of some of die philosophers,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 684 pages
...defended the religion of the state ; and urged a conformity to it to be the duty of every citizen. They " diligently practised the ceremonies of their...of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of ал atheist under the sacerdotal robes."1 It is true that insulated passages may be found in the writings... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1832 - 442 pages
...words of Gibbon, " they diligently practised the ceremonies of their fathers: devoutly iu appearance, frequented the temples of the gods, and sometimes...sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes." Such, among the philosophers, were the dictates of the voice of nature respecting the Deity, and the... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1828 - 286 pages
...dignity of reason : but they resigned their actions to the commands of law and of custom. Viewing, with a smile of pity and indul-gence, the various...sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Keasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith,... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Free thinkers and freethought - 1829 - 466 pages
...independent dignity of reason; but they resigned their actions to the commands of law and custom. Viewing with a smile of pity and indulgence the various errors...of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of * All the inferior deities in Homer, are represented as thus addressing the supreme Jove : — " Oh... | |
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In their writings and conversation, the philosophers of antiquity asserted the independent dignity of reason, but they resigned their actions to the commands of law and of custom. Viewing, with a smile of pity and indulgence, the various errors of the... 
