 The religion of the nations was not merely a speculative doctrine professed in the schools or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or...  Eburacum, or York under the Romans - Seite 73von Charles Wellbeloved - 1842Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1803 - 430 Seiten
...merely a speculative doctrine professed in the schools or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven...circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or of private life ; and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them, without at the same time... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 388 Seiten
...advantage which they drew from it. " It was moreover interwoven," as Mr Gibbon rightly represents it, " with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or private life, with all the offices and amusements of society." On the due celebration also of its rites, the people... | |
 | 1812 - 586 Seiten
...a spe-. culatjve doctrine, professed in the schools or preached in the temples — the innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven,...of business or pleasure, of public or private life; and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them, without at the same time renouncing the... | |
 | 1841 - 712 Seiten
...merely a speculative doctrine professed in the schools or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven...circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or of private life ; and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them without, at the same time,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 850 Seiten
...narrative. 1. In another place I observed, and even pressed the observation, " that the innumerable deities and rites of Polytheism were closely interwoven...circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or of private life ;" and I had particularly specified how much the Roman discipline was connected with... | |
 | 1857 - 1196 Seiten
...merely a speculative doctrine, professed in the schools or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven...of business or pleasure, of public or private life ; and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them, without at the same time renouncing the... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 426 Seiten
...advantage which they drew from it. " It was moreover interwoven," as Mr. Gibbon rightly represents it, " with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or private life, with all the offices and amusements of society." On the due celebration also of its rites, the people... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 408 Seiten
...advantage which they drew from it. " It was moreover interwoven," as Mr. Gibbon rightly represents K, " with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or private life, with all the offices and amusements of society." On the due celebration also of its rites, the people... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 454 Seiten
...advantage which they drew from it. " It was moreover interwoven," as• Mr. Gibbon rightly represents it, "with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or private life, with all the offices and amusements of society." On the due celebration also of its rites, the people... | |
 | 1826 - 842 Seiten
...although far less powerful in degree. The religious system of the ancients was, as Mr. Gibbon observes, " interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or private life, with all the offices and "amusements of society." But there was a counteracting principle in the laxity... | |
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