...with all the offices and amusements of society." On the due celebration also of its rites, the pcople were taught to believe, and did believe, that the...prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the pcople as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful...

...reflections o the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious part of theii subjects ; 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 and that this toleration produced...

...which is God's standard for all. What the infidel Gibbon says of ancient Paganism at Bome—viz., " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful,"—seems to be practically re-echoed in the nineteenth century, not only in Germany, but among...

...the whites came. God would have given the Indians the book, if they were to be directed by it. ,f " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...considered by the people as equally true ; by the philosopher, as equally false ; and by the magistrate, ai equally useful.'' — Gibbon'* Decline and...

...the whites came. God would have given the Indians the book, if they were to be directed by it. t " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...world were all considered by the people as equally trne : by the philosopher, as equally false ; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.' - — Gibbon's...

...what quiet shape it may assume in others. Gibbon, speaking of the paganism of ancient Rome, says, " 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." The comment of some one is,...

...appeals to the evidence of Miracles. The reality of the miracles involved in the creation of the 7 " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...considered by the people as equally true ; by the philosopher, as equally false ; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." (Gibbon's "Decline and Fall";...

...to quote the opinion of Gibbon in his great work on the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire : — " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...considered by the people as equally true ; by the philosopher, as equally false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced...

...religious liberty, any more than there was of religion. Gibbon says that all religions were regarded by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the rulers as equally useful. A writer in the Edinburgh Seview, says of the ancient magistrates : " They...

...habit to cast bis epigrams into the form of triplets ; as in the familiar instance where he says that " the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered as equally trii«, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful" (i....