 | Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 стор.
...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...false ; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced, not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord."f Far different... | |
 | John Wade - 1835 - 862 стор.
...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...equally false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord."* Further on he... | |
 | William Paley - 1836 - 626 стор.
...the matter which is given by Mr. Gibbon: "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Raman world, were all considered by the people as equally...philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equallv useful : and I would ask from which of these tliree classes of men were the Christian missionaries... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 стор.
...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 Paley - 1838 - 976 стор.
...Gibbon : — " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered bv the people as equally true, by the philosopher as...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful:" and I would ask from which of these three classes of men were the Christian missionaries to look for... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 стор.
...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...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' On the contrary, the popular feeling enlisted itself on all sides, as it always must do, in the worship... | |
 | James Napier Bailey - 1840 - 250 стор.
...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...false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."* Juvenal thus ridicules the superstitious character of the Egyptian populace :— Quis nescit, Voluei... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 стор.
...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 стор.
...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... | |
 | William Sewell - 1841 - 408 стор.
...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...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." On the contrary, the popular feeling enlisted itself on all sides, as it always must do, in the worship... | |
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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. 
