Ancient Faiths and Modern: A Dissertation Upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist |
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... endeavour , with the aid of Prescott , and other writers , to ascertain something of the faith professed by Montezuma and his subjects . Derived from two sources , there were two dis- tinct elements in the Mexican religion ; one of ...
... endeavour , with the aid of Prescott , and other writers , to ascertain something of the faith professed by Montezuma and his subjects . Derived from two sources , there were two dis- tinct elements in the Mexican religion ; one of ...
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... endeavour to wash his sins away in a sanguine stream , drawn from any source whatever . The horror which would be produced by the doctrine that such things are necessary to appease our God , would make every thinking being detest it ...
... endeavour to wash his sins away in a sanguine stream , drawn from any source whatever . The horror which would be produced by the doctrine that such things are necessary to appease our God , would make every thinking being detest it ...
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... endeavour to bring about improvements in the arts , the sciences , and the general conditions of life . The recognition of a want , is an incentive to a thoughtful mind to supply the exigency . Whenever an individual endeavours to ...
... endeavour to bring about improvements in the arts , the sciences , and the general conditions of life . The recognition of a want , is an incentive to a thoughtful mind to supply the exigency . Whenever an individual endeavours to ...
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... endeavour to ascertain the religion of the negro , by which term we include all the black native tribes of Africa , we find ourselves almost in the position of a modern chemist seeking for the philosopher's stone . In no single book ...
... endeavour to ascertain the religion of the negro , by which term we include all the black native tribes of Africa , we find ourselves almost in the position of a modern chemist seeking for the philosopher's stone . In no single book ...
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... endeavour to ascertain what is the race , or the people , which have been born with a higher religious development , a greater capacity for learn- ing , and a higher appreciation of the value of agriculture and civilization than the ...
... endeavour to ascertain what is the race , or the people , which have been born with a higher religious development , a greater capacity for learn- ing , and a higher appreciation of the value of agriculture and civilization than the ...
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