 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 542 pages
...it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and toleration, by the habits of the superstitious, part of their...produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord, or the The superstition of the people was not embitpeople. ' tered by any mixture of theological... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 pages
...degrees, to an equality with their conquerors. universal I. The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded...equally false ; and by the magistrate, as equally usefu1. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence; but even religious concord. of the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1817 - 738 pages
...gtvn a true account of the matter. «' «* The various modes of worship," s'aye Mr. Gibbto, '* wblck -prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. — The devout p^olytheist, though fondly attached to his national rites, admitted, with implicit faith,... | |
 | Robert Adam - 1818 - 494 pages
...mem.; and another memoir on the same subject, and by the same author, in Tom. 18. mem. some truth, that "the various modes of worship which prevailed in the...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 Jones - 1819 - 626 pages
...subject cannot be more fitly and aptly expressed than it has been by Mr. Gibbon, in the following words. "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord."* • Decline and Fall of tte Roman Empire, Vol. I. ch. tf. The Religions of the Iiuiians,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pages
...as far f "|[te"fal as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the re- toleration} flections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious,...produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered by any mixture of theological rancour ;... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 396 pages
...The various modes of worship 'which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered i -/-' < i• 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 protection... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 426 pages
...measure depended. I am willing to accept the account of the matter which is given by Mr. Gibbon : " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...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 protection... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 408 pages
...measure depended. I am willing to accept the account of the matter which is given by Mr. Gibbon : " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...false, and by the magistrate as equally useful :" and I woufd ask from which of these three classes of men were the Christian missionaries to look for protection... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 478 pages
...great measure depended. I am willing to accept the account of the matter which is given by Mr. Gibbon: "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...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 protection... | |
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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. 
