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... Seekers After Godde Frederic William Farrar - 1868 - 336 páginasVer trechos - Sobre este livro
| William Paley - 1810 - 436 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1818 - 634 páginas
...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... | |
| William Henry Rowlatt - 1830 - 454 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 or impunity... | |
| Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1858 - 580 páginas
...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 - 1855 - 522 páginas
...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 páginas
...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.... | |
| William Paley - 1859 - 526 páginas
..."The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the pcople 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... | |
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