 | Robert Wesson, Robert G. Wesson, Patricia A. Williams - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1995 - 268 pages
...tranquility. According to Gibbon, for example: "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the ancient world were all considered by the people as equally...true; by the philosophers as equally false; and by the magistrates as equally useful" (quoted in Harrington 1983, p. 26). Or according to Napoleon, on the... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1996 - 756 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 the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrates as equally useful."8 It seemed an interesting... | |
 | Martin E. Marty - History - 1986 - 572 pages
...which the great historian Edward Gibbon had seen in the age of the Antonines in Rome. Gibbon wrote: "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 Taylor - Religion - 1997 - 526 pages
...resistance to the only faithful and rational account of the matter, so elegantly given us by Gibbon. t *•' The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...Roman world, were all considered, by the people, as equal iy true, — by the philosopher, as equally false, — and b\ the magistrate, as equally useful.... | |
 | John D. Rayner - Jewish sermons, English - 1998 - 212 pages
...religions ceased to be taken seriously, for as Gibbon wrote in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: 'The various modes of worship, which prevailed in...equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful' (Ch. 2). This, above all, is why the Roman Empire declined and fell. Its rulers and citizens in the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1998 - 1094 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 the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...manina. Your tiny hand is frozen. GIBBON Edward 1737-1794 390 1 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ' a philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced... | |
 | Anthony Kaldellēs - History - 1999 - 250 pages
...1.1.19 and 1.1.20. 249 Cf. Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, \. 1, pp. 25-26: "The various modes of worship, which prevailed in...considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." Note that philosophers and... | |
 | William A. Katz - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 176 pages
...from Sir Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), the author of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon said: 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. We may now call magistrates... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 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 the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced... | |
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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. 
