| Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...diligently practisedthe ceremonies of their fathers ; devoutly frequented the temples of the gods. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modesof faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the the folly of the multitude... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. JEteasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle...reverence, the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter8. It is not easy to conceive from what motives a spirit of the maof persecution... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasonerp of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle...and the same external reverence, the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.1' £ I do not pretend to assert, that, in this irreligious... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - Logos - 1828 - 234 pages
...the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined...multitude might choose to assume ; and they approached, * Decline and Fall, ch. xv. with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence, the altars... | |
| Plutarchus - 1828 - 286 pages
...of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Keasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle...to them what shape the folly of the multitude might chuse to assume; and they approached, with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence,... | |
| Atheism - 1828 - 290 pages
...the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined...of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them v*hat shape the folly of the multitude might chuse to assume; and they approached, with the same inward... | |
| Robert Taylor - Free thinkers and freethought - 1829 - 466 pages
...of the Roman Empire, vol.i. chap. 2. p. 46. an atheist under the sacerdotal robe. Reasoners of snch a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their...same inward contempt and the same external reverence to the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter."* It was a common adage among... | |
| John Wade - Great Britain - 1831 - 610 pages
...the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of the atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined...and the same external reverence the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter." Can it be supposed the statesmen and teachers of... | |
| John Wade - 1831 - 608 pages
...the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of the atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined...and the same external reverence the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter." Can it be supposed the statesmen and teachers of... | |
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...theatre of superstition, , they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of...reverence the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitolino Jupiter." Gibbon's History, vol. 1, p. 34. A sorry tribute, by a philosopher, to... | |
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