 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1835 - 862 pages
...the superstitious part of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the known 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...all considered, by the people, as equally true ; by tlie philosopher, as equally false ; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration... | |
 | 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...all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' On the contrary, the popular... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."* Juvenal thus ridicules the... | |
 | 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...all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." On the contrary, the popular... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Josiah William Smith - 1846 - 212 pages
...public or private life (i). We may readily accept the account of the matter given by Gibbon: (8) " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...true; by the philosophers as equally false; and by the magistrates as equally useful." And from this statement we may argue, that the Christian missionaries... | |
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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. 
