...language ' 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 ' — he goes on to say of the 2nd facilius inter parûtes in echóla quam extra in foro ferre possunt...

...Empire : * 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.' If he was an infidel, he was such from conviction, from temperament, from environment. A lover of order,...

...[2.] " 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." [3.] " The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed, in peace, their local and...

...various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman Empire, remarks that " they were considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful." " After eighteen centuries of the Gospel," some one has added, " we seem unhappily to be coming back...

...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 the magistrate as equally useful.' Some feeling of this kind constituted the whole of Gibbon's religious belief : the philosophers of...

...Empire: '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.' If he was an infidel, he was such from conviction, from temperament, from environment. A lover of order,...

...The various modes of worship,' to use a famous sentence of Gibbon's,1 ' were all considered by the people as equally true ; by the philosopher as equally...false ; and by the magistrate as equally useful.' Religion had ceased to exercise moral correction or control over men. Thinking men had long ago given...

...Rome : " 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." But upon what evidence is this theory of non-responsibility built up ? Has it the logic of reasoning,...

...Gibbon : " The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Eoman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosopher as equally...false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord." l Of all places in...

...subjects. 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. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.' — Decline and Fall...