 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 668 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 716 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...assume ; and they approached, with the same inward con1 I do not pretend to assert that, in this irreligious age, the natural terrors of superstition,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1906 - 480 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 could introduce itself... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 542 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...assume; and they approached, with the same inward 1 I do not pretend to assert that, in this irreligious age, the natural terrors of superstition, dreams,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 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...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... | |
 | Pramatha Nath Bose - 1927 - 280 Seiten
...of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith or worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of the multitude might assume." The formulation by Indian sages of the threefold path of jnana (Enlightenment), Bfiakti <Faith)... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1988 - 260 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...the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter. 32 The self-serving but politically useful hypocrisy of the intellectuals was matched and exploited... | |
 | S. N. Balagangadhara - 1994 - 586 Seiten
...theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. ... It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of...the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter (my italics). Or, again, this time on a larger canvas: The policy of the emperors and the senate, as... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1997 - 526 Seiten
...scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith, or of worship. Tt was indiffer ent to them what shape the folly of the multitude might choose to assume ; and they approached with the samtinward contempt and the same external reverence to the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 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...reverence, the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the CapitoUne Jupiter.8 It is not easy to conceive from what motives a spirit of 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,... 
