 | Edward Gibbon - 1871 - 652 pages
...such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respectives modes of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of...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... | |
 | Frédéric Hunt - 1883 - 194 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, or the Capitoline Jupiter. — Oxford Exam. Papers for Women, 1879. IV. — Idiotismcs... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Pramatha Nath Bose - 1894 - 296 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." "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" Vol. I. Ch. II. * According to the last Census, out of a total... | |
 | Pramatha Nath Bose - 1894 - 298 pages
...scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith or of worship. It was indifferent them what shape the folly of the multitude might choose to assume.' "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" Vol. I. Ch. II. * According to the last Census, out of a tot... | |
 | Félicité Robert de Lamennais - 1895 - 348 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, or the Capitolinc Jupiter.' ' Less surprise would be felt at the complacency... | |
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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,... 
