The Natural History of Society in the Barbarous and Civilized State: An Essay Towards Discovering the Origin and Course of Human Improvement, Band 2D. Appleton & Company, 1841 - 347 Seiten |
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... 82 22 VI . Roman Civilization 107 VII . On the Decline of Polytheism VII . On the Introduction of Christianity , and its Influence on Civilization . 136 152 CHAPTER IX . Effects Produced on Civilization by the Conquests.
... 82 22 VI . Roman Civilization 107 VII . On the Decline of Polytheism VII . On the Introduction of Christianity , and its Influence on Civilization . 136 152 CHAPTER IX . Effects Produced on Civilization by the Conquests.
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... Guebers , but sometimes to Christians . This word is sometimes used in Persian poetry to signify a tavern - keeper . This is , however , only a meta- phorical application of the term.-M. a Gaur ; * and that term , which means 42 PERSIAN.
... Guebers , but sometimes to Christians . This word is sometimes used in Persian poetry to signify a tavern - keeper . This is , however , only a meta- phorical application of the term.-M. a Gaur ; * and that term , which means 42 PERSIAN.
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... Christianity so transcendently sur- pass every system of religion devised by human reason , than in its combining the two great objects to which we have alluded - bringing the Divine attributes down to the level of human capacity , and ...
... Christianity so transcendently sur- pass every system of religion devised by human reason , than in its combining the two great objects to which we have alluded - bringing the Divine attributes down to the level of human capacity , and ...
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... Christianity . In tracing the decline and fall of Polytheism , we have in the first place to inquire what were the circumstances which led to a doubt of its claims to credibility . We have seen that the more ancient mythology was purely ...
... Christianity . In tracing the decline and fall of Polytheism , we have in the first place to inquire what were the circumstances which led to a doubt of its claims to credibility . We have seen that the more ancient mythology was purely ...
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... Christianity as " the divine system " for which the world had long wished , without comprehending the nature of its desires . for a description of the arts practised by the fortune - tellers and sor- cerers at Rome , too long and too ...
... Christianity as " the divine system " for which the world had long wished , without comprehending the nature of its desires . for a description of the arts practised by the fortune - tellers and sor- cerers at Rome , too long and too ...
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Æneid ancient appears Archbishop Whately aristocracy Asia attributed Babylon barbarism became become benevolence Carthage Carthaginians cause Chaldeans Christianity church circumstances commerce conquest consequences conservative constitution corrupted crime criminal deities demoralizing derived despotism divine doctrines doubt ecclesiastical effect Egypt Egyptian element of civilization empire English Reformation error established Europe evil exclusive existence faith feelings feudal force Gammadim Grecian Greece Greeks hence Herodotus human importance individual influence institutions juvenile king labour land less Lord manufacturing Medes ment mind monarch moral nations nature nobles object opinion original Oscans papacy parents peculiar peril Persians persons Pharaoh Phoenicians political polytheism possessed principle produced prophet Psammetichus race reform religion religious rendered Roman Rome royalty says scarcely Scriptures slaves social society Sparta spirit strength struggle supremacy theocracy thing tion trade tribes truth Tyre Tyrian Xenophon
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Seite 182 - But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Seite 302 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant: and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over4 to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Seite 71 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the Last Days.
Seite 9 - And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. 49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
Seite 106 - You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Seite 72 - Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee : thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Seite 65 - ... the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Seite 133 - I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him! — He is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Seite 174 - The grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world...
Seite 158 - Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.