 | Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 664 Seiten
...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...Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.' It is not easy to conceive from what motives a spirit of persecution could introduce itself into the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 658 Seiten
...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...with the same inward contempt, and the same external rever-\ ence,-the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline ' Jupiter.8 It is not easy... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1852 - 448 Seiten
...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...contempt and the same external reverence, the altars of tile Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter." — Gibbon's History, i. 34. A sorry tribute,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 Seiten
...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.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 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Robert Hare - 1855 - 556 Seiten
...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. 1294. " It is not easy to conceive from what motives... | |
 | William Hague - 1855 - 276 Seiten
...to wrangle about their respective modes of faith or worship. It was indifferent to them what shapes the folly of the multitude might choose to assume;...and the same external reverence the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter." In a state of public sentiment which renders religion... | |
 | Robert Hare - 1855 - 484 Seiten
...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...choose to assume; and they approached with the same in-, ward contempt, and the same external reverence, the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the... | |
 | Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 412 Seiten
...usual accompaniments, which obtained among the higher ranks of Roman society. " It was indifl-orent to them what shape the folly 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... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1859 - 428 Seiten
...they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. It was 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,... | |
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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,... 
