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, with the same inward contempt,... Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Pàgina 193editat per - 1776Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1776 - 612 pàgines
...of worfhip. It was indifferent to them what (hape the folly of the multitude might chufe to aiTume ; and they approached, with the fame inward contempt,...could introduce itfelf into the Roman councils. The magiftrates could not be actuated by a blind, though honeit bigotry, fince the magiftrates were themfelves... | |
| SEVERAL HANDS - 1776 - 612 pàgines
...worfhip. It was indifferent to them what Шаре the folly of the multitude might chufe to affume ; and they approached, with the fame inward contempt,...Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter. ' It js not.eafy to conceive from what motives a fpirit of perfecution could introduce itfelf into the Roman... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1802 - 496 pàgines
...worfhip. It was indifferent to them what fliape the folly of the multitude might choofe to affume ; and they approached, with the fame inward contempt,...and the fame external reverence, the altars of the JL,ybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter8. ofthemt. It is not eafy to conceive from what motives... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1813 - 532 pàgines
...of worfhip. It was indifferent to them what fhape the folly of the multitude might chufe to affume ; and they approached, with the fame inward contempt, and the fame external reverence, the alters of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter8. of the ma- It is not eafy to conceive... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pàgines
...multitude might choose to assume ; and they approached, with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence, the 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 - 1831 - 608 pàgines
...the multitude might choose to assume; and they approached with the same inward contempt and the same external reverence the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter." Can it be supposed the statesmen and teachers of the nineteenth century are less adroit and sagacious... | |
| John Wade - 1831 - 610 pàgines
...the multitude might choose to assume ; and they approached with the same inward contempt and the same external reverence the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter." Can it be supposed the statesmen and teachers of the nineteenth century are less adroit and sagacious... | |
| John Wade - 1832 - 730 pàgines
...the multitude might choose to assume ; and they approached with the same inward contempt and the same external reverence the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline .Jupiter." Can it he supposed the statesmen and teachers of the nineteenth century are less adroit and sagacious... | |
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1833 - 450 pàgines
...multitude might choose to assume ; and they approached, with the same inward contempt and the same external reverence, the altars of the 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 pàgines
...the multitude might choose to assume ; and they approached with the same inward contempt and the same external reverence the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter." Can it be supposed the statesmen and teachers of the nineteenth century are less adroit and sagacious... | |
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