 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.  The Quarterly Review - 24 ページ1840全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 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 - 650 ページ
...declaration, that ' the various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...employed in showing, not that all these forms of devotion were equally false, but that all were equally true. Ami the toleration of the magistrate, though extensively... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 976 ページ
...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... | |
 | James Napier Bailey - 1840 - 250 ページ
...Egyptians. " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the" Egyptian " world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher...false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."* Juvenal thus ridicules the superstitious character of the Egyptian populace :— Quis nescit, Voluei... | |
 | D. Davidson - 1844 - 284 ページ
...been enforced. " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher...equally false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." Pliny, regardless... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 ページ
...The various modes of worship which prevniled in the Roman world were nil,' he remarks, 'considered Full many a sprightly, race, Disporting on thy margent...green, The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now d Some feeling of this kind constituted the whole of Gibbon's religions belief : the philosophers of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 678 ページ
...their subjects. 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 1 They were erected about the midway between Labor and Delhi. The conquests of Alexander in Hindostan... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1847 - 456 ページ
...Gibbon, tersely, and perhaps with great general correctness, has put the case, "were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." The people, as they were generally the first addressed, would, in all likelihood, be the first to discover... | |
 | 1847 - 780 ページ
...progressing towards that state at which Gibbon says pagan Rome had arrived, when all religion was regarded by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. Infidelity is not the only spirit that is awake, nor is it, perhaps, the most dangerous and fatal.... | |
 | 1847 - 856 ページ
...progressing towards that state at which Gibbon says pagan Rome had arrived, when all religion was regarded by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, nud by the magistrate as equally useful. Infidelity is not the unly spirit that is awake, nor ¡s it,... | |
 | 1848 - 588 ページ
...during the decline of the Empire ; and which, to adopt Gibbon's sarcastic epigram, "were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." But the history of Popery and its baneful consequences in past ages, is profitable only so far as it... | |
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