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... custom . A new significance may be imparted to it ; fresh rites may be added ; but the original elements abide . The peasants of Greece to - day hold beliefs almost identical with those of the men who tilled the same fields in the days ...
... custom . A new significance may be imparted to it ; fresh rites may be added ; but the original elements abide . The peasants of Greece to - day hold beliefs almost identical with those of the men who tilled the same fields in the days ...
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... customs which he calls pagan , but which were really ancient , was as appropriate in the days of Hesiod as in his own ... custom will be found in contemporaneous philosophy or poetry . Chapter II . The Religion of the Ghostly HE growth ...
... customs which he calls pagan , but which were really ancient , was as appropriate in the days of Hesiod as in his own ... custom will be found in contemporaneous philosophy or poetry . Chapter II . The Religion of the Ghostly HE growth ...
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... custom and the coin remained , and a new explanation was devised according with the newer phases of religious belief . The coin was for Charon , the Ferryman . Much labour and time were devoted to defeating or evading these universal ...
... custom and the coin remained , and a new explanation was devised according with the newer phases of religious belief . The coin was for Charon , the Ferryman . Much labour and time were devoted to defeating or evading these universal ...
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... customs , their sanctuaries , and their state . Their associations made them honourable , and they were not so remote from their own times as to belong to some other world than their own . The introduction of the fawn into the story of ...
... customs , their sanctuaries , and their state . Their associations made them honourable , and they were not so remote from their own times as to belong to some other world than their own . The introduction of the fawn into the story of ...
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... custom was known when the Achæans built their great wall and beetling towers , a bulwark of their ships against the soldiers of Ilium . ( II . vii , 442-463 . ) The offended Poseidon destroys it ( xii , 3-33 ) , and twice the reason is ...
... custom was known when the Achæans built their great wall and beetling towers , a bulwark of their ships against the soldiers of Ilium . ( II . vii , 442-463 . ) The offended Poseidon destroys it ( xii , 3-33 ) , and twice the reason is ...
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Page 12 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Page 23 - Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
Page 84 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna : for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
Page 168 - And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul...
Page 157 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.
Page 157 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page 23 - And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
Page 12 - For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
Page 105 - All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Page 117 - They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ; violence covereth them as a garment.