 | Taylor W.F. and sons - 1868 - 108 pages
...to quote the opinion of Gibbon in his great work on the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire : — " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." Looking back upon these Ruins as a whole, how interesting, how eloquent do they become to us ! Out... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1868 - 670 pages
...part of their subjeets. The various modes of worship, -which prevailed 111 the liomuri world, were nil considered by the people as equally true ; by the...mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not imbittered by any mixture of thcological rancor ; nor was it confined... | |
 | Robert Wesson, Robert G. Wesson, Patricia A. Williams - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1995 - 268 pages
...tranquility. According to Gibbon, for example: "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the ancient world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosophers as equally false; and by the magistrates as equally useful" (quoted in Harrington 1983,... | |
 | Martin E. Marty - History - 1986 - 572 pages
...which the great historian Edward Gibbon had seen in the age of the Antonines in Rome. Gibbon wrote: "The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." In that climate, Boorstin noted, "religion is of enormous importance," while "theology and religious... | |
 | Peter Gay - History - 1996 - 756 pages
...the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrates as equally useful."8 It seemed an interesting policy and, some of the philosophes thought,... | |
 | Guenter Lewy - Religion - 1996 - 180 pages
...the different modes of worship prevailing in the Roman world during the age of the Antonines: they "were all considered by the people as equally true;...as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."4 In the eyes of most contemporary Christian theologians, to make morality dependent upon the... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Religion - 1997 - 526 pages
...resistance to the only faithful and rational account of the matter, so elegantly given us by Gibbon. t *•' The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...Roman world, were all considered, by the people, as equal iy true, — by the philosopher, as equally false, — and b\ the magistrate, as equally useful.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1998 - 1094 pages
...the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered by any mixture of theological rancour; nor was it confined... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...manina. Your tiny hand is frozen. GIBBON Edward 1737-1794 390 1 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ' a 3902 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably... | |
 | John D. Rayner - Jewish sermons, English - 1998 - 212 pages
...religions ceased to be taken seriously, for as Gibbon wrote in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: 'The various modes of worship, which prevailed in...all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosophers as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful' (Ch. 2). This, above all,... | |
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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. 
