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... at all times is a possession to be esteemed , but especially when it conferred the privilege of being with him while he was enjoying the honours of that office . A. LE MARCHANT CHAP . I. Obscure Origins II . The Religion of PREFACE.
... at all times is a possession to be esteemed , but especially when it conferred the privilege of being with him while he was enjoying the honours of that office . A. LE MARCHANT CHAP . I. Obscure Origins II . The Religion of PREFACE.
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... possession of the body they could be driven out by chewing Buckthorn , the Rhamnus Catharticus of the modern Materia Medica . They could enter into a dead body as well as a living , and disturb the dead man's future life , whatever it ...
... possession of the body they could be driven out by chewing Buckthorn , the Rhamnus Catharticus of the modern Materia Medica . They could enter into a dead body as well as a living , and disturb the dead man's future life , whatever it ...
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... possessions . The desire of a man so devoutly expressed to win her favour will suffice ; a lesser sacrifice will be acceptable . It was not the blood of the noble , great - hearted woman that reddened the altar , but of a fawn placed by ...
... possessions . The desire of a man so devoutly expressed to win her favour will suffice ; a lesser sacrifice will be acceptable . It was not the blood of the noble , great - hearted woman that reddened the altar , but of a fawn placed by ...
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... possessed the place , so that the new city with its fortifications might abide secure under their propitiated guardianship . The association of the sacrifice with the Delphian oracle is an indication that it was not the outcome of ...
... possessed the place , so that the new city with its fortifications might abide secure under their propitiated guardianship . The association of the sacrifice with the Delphian oracle is an indication that it was not the outcome of ...
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... it is clear that both yvyn and owμa are essential to the complete personality that it cannot exist in the one without the other . A further deduction can be safely ventured : that what is true for the possession THE LIVING AND THE DEAD 35.
... it is clear that both yvyn and owμa are essential to the complete personality that it cannot exist in the one without the other . A further deduction can be safely ventured : that what is true for the possession THE LIVING AND THE DEAD 35.
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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.