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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... rites.P citizens approved rather the conduct of Fabius Maximus , who left to the Ts- rentines their offended gods . Plut . | Vit . Marc . According to Verrius Flaccus , cited by Pliny ( xxviii . 2 ) , the Romans used to invoke the ...
... rites.P citizens approved rather the conduct of Fabius Maximus , who left to the Ts- rentines their offended gods . Plut . | Vit . Marc . According to Verrius Flaccus , cited by Pliny ( xxviii . 2 ) , the Romans used to invoke the ...
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... rites from that remarkable people , the Etruscans ; and ra- pidly adapted itself , or was forced by the legislator into an adaptation to the character of the people . Mars or Gradivus was the divine ancestor of the race . The religious ...
... rites from that remarkable people , the Etruscans ; and ra- pidly adapted itself , or was forced by the legislator into an adaptation to the character of the people . Mars or Gradivus was the divine ancestor of the race . The religious ...
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... rites were perhaps solem- nised , but they had ceased to command , and no longer received , the active veneration of the people . What , in fact , is the general result of the Roman religious calendar , half a year of which is described ...
... rites were perhaps solem- nised , but they had ceased to command , and no longer received , the active veneration of the people . What , in fact , is the general result of the Roman religious calendar , half a year of which is described ...
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... rites and cere- monies . for new Reli- Heathen Gradually , however , as the period approaches in which the religion of civilisation is to be intro- Preparation duced into the great drama of human life , as gion in the we descend nearer ...
... rites and cere- monies . for new Reli- Heathen Gradually , however , as the period approaches in which the religion of civilisation is to be intro- Preparation duced into the great drama of human life , as gion in the we descend nearer ...
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... rites were said Human sacrifices sometimes , but of human sacrifices , Constant , iv . 330 . rarely , occur in the earlier periods of Grecian history . According to Plu- tarch , Vit . Arist . 9 , and Vit . Themi- stoclis , three sons of ...
... rites were said Human sacrifices sometimes , but of human sacrifices , Constant , iv . 330 . rarely , occur in the earlier periods of Grecian history . According to Plu- tarch , Vit . Arist . 9 , and Vit . Themi- stoclis , three sons of ...
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