The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire, Volume 1John Murray, 1884 - Christianity |
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... PROGRESS OF KNOWLEDGE Book 1 . from. CHAP . I. g 27 Fontenelle is mistaken when he thinks the Romans prohibited the Cartha- ginians by treaty from offering any more human sacrifices . The original | treaties between these powerful re ...
... PROGRESS OF KNOWLEDGE Book 1 . from. CHAP . I. g 27 Fontenelle is mistaken when he thinks the Romans prohibited the Cartha- ginians by treaty from offering any more human sacrifices . The original | treaties between these powerful re ...
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... PROGRESS OF KNOWLEDGE Book 1 . from religion . The orgies of the Bona Dea were a pro- fanation of the sacred rite , held up to detestation by the indignant satirist , not as among some of the early Orien- tal nations , the rite itself ...
... PROGRESS OF KNOWLEDGE Book 1 . from religion . The orgies of the Bona Dea were a pro- fanation of the sacred rite , held up to detestation by the indignant satirist , not as among some of the early Orien- tal nations , the rite itself ...
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... progress of opinion , the moral would more and more predominate over the primitive religious meaning . Yet the morality of the Mysteries was apparently that of the ancient Nature - worship of the East . It taught the im- mortality of ...
... progress of opinion , the moral would more and more predominate over the primitive religious meaning . Yet the morality of the Mysteries was apparently that of the ancient Nature - worship of the East . It taught the im- mortality of ...
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... progress of civilisation was slowly bringing up towards the common level ; and where it found or sought proselytes , it spoke without authority , and distracted with the multitude of its conflicting sects the patient but bewildered ...
... progress of civilisation was slowly bringing up towards the common level ; and where it found or sought proselytes , it spoke without authority , and distracted with the multitude of its conflicting sects the patient but bewildered ...
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... progress , the extent of which it is among the most difficult questions in history to estimate : but the Oriental rites of Phrygia , and the Isiac and Serapic worship of Egypt , which , in defiance of the edict of the magistrate and the ...
... progress , the extent of which it is among the most difficult questions in history to estimate : but the Oriental rites of Phrygia , and the Isiac and Serapic worship of Egypt , which , in defiance of the edict of the magistrate and the ...
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