 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1776 - 608 pages
...multitude might chufe to aflume j and they approached, with the fame inward contempt, and the fame external reverence, the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter. * It is not eafy to conceive from what motives a fpirit of perfecution could introduce itfelf into... | |
 | 1776 - 612 pages
...multitude might chufe to aiTume ; and they approached, with the fame inward contempt, and the fame external reverence, the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian> or the Capitoline Jupiter. • It is not eafy to conceive from what motives a fpirit of perfecution could introduce itfelf into... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1776 - 612 pages
...multitude might chufe to affume ; and they approached, with the fame inward contempt, and the fame external reverence, the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter. ' It js not.eafy to conceive from what motives a fpirit of perfecution could introduce itfelf into... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the the folly of the multitude might chuse to assume ; and they approached with the same inward...same external reverence, the altars of the Libyan, Olympian, or the Capitolinc Jupiter." But who are those ancient sages to whom this pompous description... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pages
...of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasonerp of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle...altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.1' £ I do not pretend to assert, that, in this irreligious age, the natural terrors of superstition,... | |
 | John Wade - 1832 - 730 pages
...their respective modes of faith or of worship. * Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. ip 40. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of...pagan Rome ? Can it be supposed those whose minds have heen enlightened by foreign travel, who have witnessed the conflict of opposite creeds, and who have... | |
 | John Wade - 1832 - 730 pages
...their respective modes of faith or of worship. * Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. ip 40. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of...the Olympian, or the Capitoline .Jupiter." Can it he supposed the statesmen and teachers of the nineteenth century are less adroit and sagacious than... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1833 - 450 pages
...sentiments of an atheist under the sacerdotal robes. It was indifferent to them what shape the foll^v of the multitude might choose to assume ; and they...Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter." — Gibbon's History, i. 34. A sorry tribute, by a philosopher, to the benevolence and honesty of his... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 678 pages
...faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of the multitude might chuse to assume ; and they approached with the same inward...altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.8 It is not easy to conceive from what motives a spirit ofihemaof persecution could introduce... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 664 pages
...sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respectives modes of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent...Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.' It is not easy to conceive from what motives a spirit of persecution could introduce itself into the... | |
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... to act a part on the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent... 
