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... presents itself , then steal forth those who are ready in the name of religion to destroy it . Had the " Act for uniting their Majesties ' Protestant Subjects , " known as the Comprehension Bill , introduced in the House of Lords 1689 ...
... presents itself , then steal forth those who are ready in the name of religion to destroy it . Had the " Act for uniting their Majesties ' Protestant Subjects , " known as the Comprehension Bill , introduced in the House of Lords 1689 ...
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... present . Religious observances are deepest and most tenacious of all . The slow tides of civilization and the stormy bil- lows of revolution pass over the world , but the religious life of the people , which lives , as it were , in the ...
... present . Religious observances are deepest and most tenacious of all . The slow tides of civilization and the stormy bil- lows of revolution pass over the world , but the religious life of the people , which lives , as it were , in the ...
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... present day in Greece it is still customary to propitiate the demon of the place , and to induce him to become the guardian of the new structure , by offering a sacrifice to him . According to the importance of the undertaking it will ...
... present day in Greece it is still customary to propitiate the demon of the place , and to induce him to become the guardian of the new structure , by offering a sacrifice to him . According to the importance of the undertaking it will ...
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... present- able form at an annual festival or rustic celebration . The slowness of the struggle can be seen clearly in the survival of human sacrifices to Zeus himself on Mount Lykaion , probably up to the time of Pausanias . That was an ...
... present- able form at an annual festival or rustic celebration . The slowness of the struggle can be seen clearly in the survival of human sacrifices to Zeus himself on Mount Lykaion , probably up to the time of Pausanias . That was an ...
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... present life , nor does a man's character here determine his destination . The Under World is a prison of unmitigated gloom . It lies remote , beyond the deep stream of Okeanos , amidst the Kimerioi , whose city is shrouded in endless ...
... present life , nor does a man's character here determine his destination . The Under World is a prison of unmitigated gloom . It lies remote , beyond the deep stream of Okeanos , amidst the Kimerioi , whose city is shrouded in endless ...
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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.