 | William Paley, John Mackenzie Bacon - Bible - 1870 - 162 pages
...prosperity of their country in a great measure depended. (7) Mr. Gibbon's account is as follows :— "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." From which of these three classes... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) - 1871 - 114 pages
...from which he dates the decline and fall of the Roman Empire: w The various modes of worship (says he) which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered...true; by the philosophers as equally false; and by the magistrates as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious... | |
 | 1871 - 654 pages
...was no longer in any true sense the heart-worship of God. The words of Gibbon are strictly true, — "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people ics equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate us equally useful." No... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1871 - 528 pages
...allowed to retain its own chosen form of worship. "The religions of the various nations were regarded by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the magistrates as equally useful."1 Thus Christianity secured favorable consideration from the people,... | |
 | Young men's Catholic assoc - 1873 - 302 pages
...to that which they occupied in Polytheistic Rome, where, according to Gibbon's wellknown sentence, "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," he says,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1875 - 668 pages
...superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, •which prevailed in the Eoman 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... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - United States - 1878 - 604 pages
...which he dates the decline and fall of the Roman Empire : " The various modes of worship," says he, " which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered...by the philosophers as equally false ; and by the magistrates as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious... | |
 | James Culross - Bible - 1878 - 282 pages
...and practically submitted to the supremacy of Jupiter Capitolinus and the Emperor. As Gibbon puts it: "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 • The passage is this ( Tac. Annal., xv. 44)... | |
 | William Paley - Apologetics - 1879 - 524 pages
...their country in a great measure depended. I am willing to accept the account of the matter which ia given by Mr. Gibbon : " The various modes of worship...classes of men were the Christian missionaries to lool for protection or impunity ? Could they expect it from the people, " whose acknowledged confidence... | |
 | Theodor Goldstuecker - Hindu law - 1879 - 614 pages
...have been in their time as it was in the age of the Antonines, which Gibbon describes when saying, " 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." The Mahabharata is therefore... | |
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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. 
