 | John Wade - 1831 - 608 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... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...theatre of superstition, , they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of...and the same external reverence the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitolino Jupiter." Gibbon's History, vol. 1, p. 34. A sorry tribute,... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 536 pages
...the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of...and the same external reverence the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter." GiVbon's History, vol. 1, p. 34. A sorry tribute,... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of...and the same external reverence the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter." Gibbon's History, vol. 1. p. 34. A sorry tribute,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Wade - 1835 - 862 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 pages
...inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to t hem what shape the folly of the multitude might choose...and the same external reverence, the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the CupilolmiJupiter.8 It is not easy to conceive from what motives a spirit... | |
 | James Napier Bailey - 1840 - 250 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...and the same external reverence, the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, and the Capitoline Jupiter."* There can be little dependence placed en the authority... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1845 - 436 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 choose to assume ; and they approach with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence to the altars of the Lybian,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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,... 
