 | William Henry Rowlatt - Sermons, English - 1830 - 454 pages
...whom I have already quoted) to accept the account of the matter which is given by Mr. Gibbon : that the various modes of worship which prevailed in the...as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful1." And yet if natural religion be what it is represented to be, so far from this description... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 692 pages
...Tacitus says of the Jewish, was more applicable to the heathen establishment ; " Hi ritus, quoquo modo inducti, antiquitate defenduntur." It was also a splendid...all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful:" and I would ask from which... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1831 - 624 pages
...taught to believe, and did believe, that the prosperity of their country in a great measure dended. I am willing to accept the account of the matter which...all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful : and I would ask from which... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pages
...cannot be more fitly and aptly expressed than it has been by Mr. Gibbon, in the following words:—" 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... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 244 pages
...would be the ruin of the state. ' The various modes of worship amongst the ancients,1 says Gibbon, ' were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the magistrates as equally useful.' From which, then, of these three classes could the Christians hope... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1831 - 610 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... | |
 | John Wade - Church and state - 1832 - 730 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... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Church history - 1833 - 392 pages
...reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious part of their 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... | |
 | Robert Haldane - Bible - 1834 - 526 pages
...result of their indiscriminating notions of Polytheism. " The various modes of worship," says Mr Gibbon, "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. — The devout polytheist, though... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...gods. Gibbon's splendid description of the Roman religion is true of nearly the whole ancient world. " 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,... | |
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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. 
