 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...sometimes condescending to act a part on the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such...altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.8 It is not easy to conceive from what motives a spirit of persecution or the magts- could... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 436 pages
...skepticism and its usual accompaniments, which obtained among the higher ranks of Roman society. " It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of...Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter." The Abb6 Lamennais asserts, " that in such a frame of society, the human mind had nothing to rest upon.... | |
 | Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 412 pages
...of the multitude might choose to assume, and they approached with the same inw.ird contempt, and tho same external reverence, the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter." The Abbe Lamennais asserts, " that in such a frame of society, the human mind had nothing to rest upon.... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1859 - 428 pages
...indifferent to &ea> what shape the folly of the multitude might choose to assume; and they &P" proached, with the same inward contempt and the same external reverence, the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter." — GiW0»» History, i. 34. A sorry tribute, by... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1871 - 652 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...reverence, the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitolinn Jupiter.3 It is not easy to conceive from what motives a spirit of persecution could introduce... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 668 pages
...modes of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of the multitude night choose to assume ; and they approached with the same...altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.8 It is not easy to conceive from what motives a spirit of po» secution could introduce itself... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1879 - 678 pages
...It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of the multitude might choose to assume ; ana luey approached with the same inward contempt, and the...reverence, the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitolino Jupiter." It is not easy to conceive from what motives a spirit of persecution could introduce... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 704 pages
...the theatre of superstition, concealed the sentiments of an atheist under the sacerdotal robes, and approached with the same inward contempt, and the...Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter"; or when he adds that "the freedom of the city was bestowed on all the gods of mankind." — [" Dedine... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1887 - 1040 pages
...scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith or of worship. It was 'nidifièrent to them what shape the folly of the multitude might...altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.8 It is not easy to conceive from what motives a spirit of persecution or the magi- could introduce... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 668 pages
...modes of faith, OT of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the foil} of the multitude night choose to assume ; and they approached with the same...the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter. s It is not easy to conceive from what motives a spirit of per secution could mtroduce itself into... | |
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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... 
