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... Roman amphitheatre met the beasts of the forest face to face - to grapple with those animal passions which vice had torn from their natural range , and enhungered to feed on innocence and life . The notices of this second stage appear ...
... Roman amphitheatre met the beasts of the forest face to face - to grapple with those animal passions which vice had torn from their natural range , and enhungered to feed on innocence and life . The notices of this second stage appear ...
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... Roman would consult a Sibyl's leaf ; read it as an oracle , borne to the daylight from the dark cavern of things invisible ; -read it , however , ere it be seized by the winds of human doctrine , and thenceforth rendered ...
... Roman would consult a Sibyl's leaf ; read it as an oracle , borne to the daylight from the dark cavern of things invisible ; -read it , however , ere it be seized by the winds of human doctrine , and thenceforth rendered ...
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... Roman Catholic Church presents one of the most solemn and majestic spectacles in history . The very arguments which are employed against its rites remind us of the mighty part which it has played on the theatre of the world . For when ...
... Roman Catholic Church presents one of the most solemn and majestic spectacles in history . The very arguments which are employed against its rites remind us of the mighty part which it has played on the theatre of the world . For when ...
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... Roman Catholic system ( in common , however , with most of its Protestant rivals ) breaks down . It professes to assist us in our search after truth ; to possess a private oracle of its own , whose answers to every inquiry are inspired ...
... Roman Catholic system ( in common , however , with most of its Protestant rivals ) breaks down . It professes to assist us in our search after truth ; to possess a private oracle of its own , whose answers to every inquiry are inspired ...
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... Roman Catholics are divided : some affirming that it is centred in the Bishop of Rome ; others ascribing it to the ecclesiastical councils , which are summoned to represent the universal Church , the decisions of which , however , are ...
... Roman Catholics are divided : some affirming that it is centred in the Bishop of Rome ; others ascribing it to the ecclesiastical councils , which are summoned to represent the universal Church , the decisions of which , however , are ...
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Page 124 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 128 - And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them...
Page 31 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts : knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Page 152 - He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Page 160 - This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God...
Page 28 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee, but my Father, which is in heaven...