 | William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 436 pages
...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 of these three classes of men, were the... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 388 pages
...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 of these three classes of men were the Christian... | |
 | Edward William Grinfield - Apologetics - 1818 - 634 pages
...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 consider whether this was not an unnatural... | |
 | Asia - 1826 - 842 pages
...The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world," says the same writer, " were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally falte, and by the magistrates as equally useful." Let us now consider briefly the nature of the religion... | |
 | William Henry Rowlatt - Sermons, English - 1830 - 454 pages
...given by Mr. Gibbon : that 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 useful1." And yet if natural religion be what it is represented to be, so far... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 244 pages
...the ruin of the state. ' The various modes of worship amongst the ancients,1 says Gibbon, ' were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers...false, and by the magistrates as equally useful.' From which, then, of these three classes could the Christians hope for protection ? Not surely from... | |
 | Josiah William Smith - 1846 - 212 pages
...matter given by Gibbon: (8) " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosophers...false; and by the magistrates as equally useful." And from this statement we may argue, that the Christian missionaries could look for no protection... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1858 - 580 pages
...collected within her walls representatives of every faith : gave to all gods a place in her Pantheon. All were considered by the people as equally true ; by the philosophers, as equally false ; by the magistrates, as equally useful. On the banks of the Tiber the Greek saw temples sacred to... | |
 | William Paley - Apologetics - 1855 - 522 pages
...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 of these three classes of men were the Christian... | |
 | William Paley - 1859 - 408 pages
...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 of Chap, i.] Probable Sufferings of Christians.... | |
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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 philosophers as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful... 
