 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of...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,... | |
 | 1828 - 290 pages
...faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them v*hat shape the folly of the multitude might chuse to assume; and they approached, with the same inward...and the same external reverence, the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter. " Thus Gibbon (vol. 1, p. 49, 50; read also p. 51).... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1828 - 234 pages
...such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them, what shape the folly of...multitude might choose to assume ; and they approached, * Decline and Fall, ch. xv. with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence, the altars... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1828 - 286 pages
...such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of 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 contempt, and the same external reverence,... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1829 - 466 pages
...snch a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of...same inward contempt and the same external reverence to the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter."* It was a common adage among... | |
 | John Wade - 1831 - 610 pages
...such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of...pagan Rome? Can it be supposed those whose minds have been enlightened by foreign travel, who have witnessed the conflict of opposite creeds, and who have... | |
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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 to them what shape the folly of the multitude might choose to .assume; and they approached,... 
