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... represented as a swarm of a kind of mosquito , some with a man's head and some with heads fashioned out of the imagination . Being fly - like , they could be caught like flies , and a daub of pitch upon the door would trap them . It had ...
... represented as a swarm of a kind of mosquito , some with a man's head and some with heads fashioned out of the imagination . Being fly - like , they could be caught like flies , and a daub of pitch upon the door would trap them . It had ...
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... represented their own . The incident was com- parable in its effects upon the mind of a Greek audience to that produced by the Three Witches meeting Macbeth upon an English audience two centuries ago . When they first appeared upon the ...
... represented their own . The incident was com- parable in its effects upon the mind of a Greek audience to that produced by the Three Witches meeting Macbeth upon an English audience two centuries ago . When they first appeared upon the ...
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... represents the death of Pentheus as the penalty for his disbelief and for his profanation of the sacred ceremonies . It was really a sacrifice to Aióvσos wvnons , wrought by the mother of the victim . Not only did the god eat the flesh ...
... represents the death of Pentheus as the penalty for his disbelief and for his profanation of the sacred ceremonies . It was really a sacrifice to Aióvσos wvnons , wrought by the mother of the victim . Not only did the god eat the flesh ...
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... represented there . It was before any worshipper of Zeus built his altar on Greek soil . It was primitive , aboriginal . It indicated a religion of dread , yet of assurance : dread of beings who became more powerful through death than ...
... represented there . It was before any worshipper of Zeus built his altar on Greek soil . It was primitive , aboriginal . It indicated a religion of dread , yet of assurance : dread of beings who became more powerful through death than ...
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... represents Apollo bearing his bow in his left hand , and in his right a round object which has been regarded as a stone . Mr. A. B. Cook , from another coin in his possession from the same town on which Apollo is represented , is ...
... represents Apollo bearing his bow in his left hand , and in his right a round object which has been regarded as a stone . Mr. A. B. Cook , from another coin in his possession from the same town on which Apollo is represented , 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.