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
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...superstitious, part toleration. of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally...useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual 1 theological rancour; nor was it confined by the chains of of tlic any speculative system. The devout... | |
| Rev. Pearson (Thomas), Thomas Pearson - Atheism - 1854 - 630 pages
...of the paganism of ancient Rome, says, u 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." The comment of some one is, "after eighteen centuries of the Gospel, we seem unhappily to be coming... | |
| Robert Hare - Bible and spiritualism - 1855 - 556 pages
...the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally...only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. 1291. "The superstition of the people was not imbittered by any mixture of theological rancour; nor... | |
| Frederick Denison Maurice - Education - 1855 - 692 pages
...Gibbon has said in a well-known passage: ‘The ‘various modes of worship that prevailed in the Roman ‘world were all considered by the people as equally...false, and. by the. ‘magistrate as equally useful.' I will not now speak of the first member of this triad. It does not directly concern our present business.... | |
| Thomas Pearson - Atheism - 1855 - 636 pages
...of the paganism of ancient Rome, says, " the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." The comment of some one is, " after eighteen centuries of the Gospel, we seem unhappily to be coming... | |
| Robert Hare - Spiritualism - 1855 - 484 pages
...the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally...philosopher, as equally false ; and by the magistrate, #s equally useful. And thus toleration produced, not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.... | |
| Charles Henry Crosse - Christianity - 1855 - 166 pages
...worship prevailing in the Roman world ? Mr. Gibbon says that " these modes of worship were con" sidered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." What observation does Paley make upon this account ? Paley asks, " From which of these classes could... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...principles. ' The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all,' he remarks, ' considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.' Some feeling of this kind constituted the whole of his religious belief; and hence in the fifteenth... | |
| William Paley - 1859 - 408 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... | |
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