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" ... 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, with the same... "
Essay on Indifference in Matters of Religion - Page 20
by Félicité Robert de Lamennais - 1895 - 300 pages
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The Monthly magazine, Volume 52

Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...diligently practisedthe ceremonies of their fathers ; devoutly frequented the temples of the gods. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modesof faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the the folly of the multitude...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 pages
...of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. JEteasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle...reverence, the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter8. It is not easy to conceive from what motives a spirit of the maof persecution...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pages
...of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasonerp of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle...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...
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Letters on the Logos

Charles Wentworth Upham - 1828 - 234 pages
...part on the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined...multitude might choose to assume ; and they approached, * Decline and Fall, ch. xv. with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence, the altars...
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Peri deisidaimonias. Plutarchus, and Theophrastus, on supersition; with [a ...

Plutarchus - 1828 - 286 pages
...of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Keasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle...to them what shape the folly of the multitude might chuse to assume; and they approached, with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence,...
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Plutarchus, and Theophrastus, on Superstition; with Various Appendices, and ...

1828 - 290 pages
...part on the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of an Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined...of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them v*hat shape the folly of the multitude might chuse to assume; and they approached, with the same inward...
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The Diegesis: Being a Discovery of the Origin, Evidences, and Early History ...

Robert Taylor - 1829 - 466 pages
...of the Roman Empire, vol.i. chap. 2. p. 46. an atheist under the sacerdotal robe. Reasoners of snch a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their...same inward contempt and the same external reverence to the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter."* It was a common adage among...
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Extraordinary black book. By the original editor

John Wade - 1831 - 608 pages
...part on the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of the atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined...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...
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The Extraordinary Black Book: An Exposition of the United Church of England ...

John Wade - 1831 - 610 pages
...part on the theatre of superstition, they concealed the sentiments of the atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined...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...
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The Evidences of Christianity in Their External Or Historical Division ...

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...reverence the altars of the Lybian, the Olympian, or the Capitolino Jupiter." Gibbon's History, vol. 1, p. 34. A sorry tribute, by a philosopher, to the benevolence...
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