 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 not only mutual indulgence,...  Loyal Reformers' Gazette - Page 4021831Full view - About this book
 | Liber - Anecdotes - 1809 - 372 pages
...all the chorches. This occasioned delay. THE various forms of worship which prevailed, in the Roman world were all considered by the: people, as equally...false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And this toleration produced not only mutual indulgence but religious -concord. Gibbon's Rise and fall,... | |
 | Robert Adam - Deism - 1809 - 520 pages
...another memoir on the same subject, and by the same author, in Tom. 18. mem. which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally...false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful." 1 From which it would appear, that the wisest men of those days, wiser far than some of later times,... | |
 | 1811 - 572 pages
...Gibbon obserres that "all the idolatrous systems df the heathen world-were considered by the common people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the politician as equally useful ;" and though Dr. C. does not seem to go this length with regard to the... | |
 | Books - 1811 - 576 pages
...Gibbon observes that "all the idolatrous systems of the heathen world were considered by the common people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the politician as equally useful ;" and though Dr. C. does Bot seem to go this length with regard to the... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 388 pages
...the matter which is given by Mr Gibbon : '* The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful:" and I would ask from which... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1817 - 738 pages
...the matter. «' «* The various modes of worship," s'aye Mr. Gibbto, '* wblck -prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally...as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.—The devout p^olytheist, though fondly attached to his national rites, admitted, with implicit... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - Education - 1817 - 612 pages
...stated the fact, the various modes of worship which, before the birth of Jesus, prevailed in the heathen world, " were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false."* And when he adds to this statement, that they were regarded " by the magistrate as equally useful," he... | |
 | Robert Adam - Deism - 1818 - 494 pages
...author, in Tom, 18. mem. some truth, that "the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally...false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful."* From which it would appear, that the wisest men of those days, wiser far than some of later times,... | |
 | William Paley - Apologetics - 1818 - 796 pages
...the matter which is given by Mr Gibbon: " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers, as equally false, and by the magistrate, as equally useful;" and I would ask, from which... | |
 | Edward William Grinfield - Apologetics - 1818 - 634 pages
...creed. Thus, as Mr. Gibbon expresses it, " The various forms of worship which prevailed in the Heathen world, were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the legislators as equally useful." Let any reflecting Theist... | |
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