...of the book itself. Gibbon has said in a well-known passage : ' The ' various modes of worship that prevailed in the Roman ' world were all considered...false, and by the ' magistrate as equally useful.' I will not now speak of the first member of this triad. It does not directly concern our present business....

...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...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...

...worship prevailing in the Roman world ? Mr. Gibbon says that " these modes of worship were con" sidered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher...equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." What observation does Paley make upon this account ? Paley asks, "From which of these classes could...

...recognised by the Romans, had been by custom a dead letter in all ages : it had rarely been enforced. " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the...toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." Pliny, regardless alike of the homage due to God and to the law of the empire,...

...unreasonable than had ever before been shown. It lias been remarked by the most learned of historians, that "the various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate...

...historian. Gibbon had insidiously, though too unequivocally, evinced his adoption of infidel principles. ' The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all,' he remarks, ' considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by...

...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...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...

...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 Roman world, were all considered by the pcople as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful...

...reflections o the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious part of theii subjects ; that the various modes of worship which prevailed in the...false, and by the magistrate as equally useful and that this toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." And Mr. Stebbing,...

...of the worst examples of this was afforded by the Roman empire, where " the various modes of worship were all considered by the people as equally true,...false, and by the magistrate as equally useful."* And the statesmen of the later empire, yielding to the cosmopolitan character of the age, as they added...