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... thought that they were haunting a man filled him with horror or drove him to madness . Such as they were the nameless deities that filled the invisible world before Zeus sat supreme upon his throne . The change from nameless to named ...
... thought that they were haunting a man filled him with horror or drove him to madness . Such as they were the nameless deities that filled the invisible world before Zeus sat supreme upon his throne . The change from nameless to named ...
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... thought have hardly touched it . The villager of the countryside , who does not know the names of the men that made Athens immortal , practises rites that were common to the people before the bearers of those names were born . It is not ...
... thought have hardly touched it . The villager of the countryside , who does not know the names of the men that made Athens immortal , practises rites that were common to the people before the bearers of those names were born . It is not ...
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... thought that the gods could be persuaded by gifts became the first priest to slay a sacrifice . He was the exponent of the primal instinct of man to win over to his side the unseen forces of life . He offered what he thought his god ...
... thought that the gods could be persuaded by gifts became the first priest to slay a sacrifice . He was the exponent of the primal instinct of man to win over to his side the unseen forces of life . He offered what he thought his god ...
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... thought of Athens , so he welcomes the assertion that the ceremony was not a real sacrifice ; she does not like to differ from Professor Murray . The testimony that the two Pharmakoi were actually sacrificed is both direct and ...
... thought of Athens , so he welcomes the assertion that the ceremony was not a real sacrifice ; she does not like to differ from Professor Murray . The testimony that the two Pharmakoi were actually sacrificed is both direct and ...
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... thought , but the person- ality is identified with the dead body now lacking all these things . So the dead man himself affirms : ἐπήν με πυρὸς λελάχητε . Il . xxiii . 76 . From such passages as these , which might be further multiplied ...
... thought , but the person- ality is identified with the dead body now lacking all these things . So the dead man himself affirms : ἐπήν με πυρὸς λελάχητε . Il . xxiii . 76 . From such passages as these , which might be further multiplied ...
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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.
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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.