The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire, Volume 1John Murray, 1867 - Church history |
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... fatal to its pretensions . There are passages in which the vivid transparency betrays at once the perplexity of the writer and the inconceivable feebleness of his argu- PREFACE . ments . I cannot apprehend more lasting effect.
... fatal to its pretensions . There are passages in which the vivid transparency betrays at once the perplexity of the writer and the inconceivable feebleness of his argu- PREFACE . ments . I cannot apprehend more lasting effect.
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... once vanished away . On the same principle , and with equal sagacity , Rome , in this as in other respects , aspired to enslave the mind of those nations which had been prostrated by her arms . The gods of the subject nations were ...
... once vanished away . On the same principle , and with equal sagacity , Rome , in this as in other respects , aspired to enslave the mind of those nations which had been prostrated by her arms . The gods of the subject nations were ...
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... once a more solemn and religious form . As to the libation of the blood of the gladiators ( see Tertullian , Apolog . c . 9 . Scorpiae . 7. Cyprian , De Spectaculis . Compare Porphyr . de Abstin . Lactant . 1-21 ) I should agree with M ...
... once a more solemn and religious form . As to the libation of the blood of the gladiators ( see Tertullian , Apolog . c . 9 . Scorpiae . 7. Cyprian , De Spectaculis . Compare Porphyr . de Abstin . Lactant . 1-21 ) I should agree with M ...
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... once spectators and actors ; where the fifth act was designedly delayed to the utmost possible point , and of this still suspended catastrophe , the dramatis persona , the only audience , were kept in studied ignorance . The Mys- teries ...
... once spectators and actors ; where the fifth act was designedly delayed to the utmost possible point , and of this still suspended catastrophe , the dramatis persona , the only audience , were kept in studied ignorance . The Mys- teries ...
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... once popular , simple , and spiritual . It was disseminated throughout all orders of society it admitted no aristocratic elysium of heroes and demi - gods , like that of the early Greeks ; it sepa- : n It is curious to see , in another ...
... once popular , simple , and spiritual . It was disseminated throughout all orders of society it admitted no aristocratic elysium of heroes and demi - gods , like that of the early Greeks ; it sepa- : n It is curious to see , in another ...
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