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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... existence of a strong similarity in all systems of religion ; but the value of the fact is supposed to be reduced to ridicule by the monstrous assertion , that Moses and Jesus taught all the world . Amongst the books which came under my ...
... existence of a strong similarity in all systems of religion ; but the value of the fact is supposed to be reduced to ridicule by the monstrous assertion , that Moses and Jesus taught all the world . Amongst the books which came under my ...
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... existence and familiar to the vulgar , rather than to adopt something entirely new . The child who dislikes to go to bed at night equally dislikes to get up in the morning , and we have known elderly people who have systematically ...
... existence and familiar to the vulgar , rather than to adopt something entirely new . The child who dislikes to go to bed at night equally dislikes to get up in the morning , and we have known elderly people who have systematically ...
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... existence of a future world a matter of sufficient consequence to communicate to His friends ; or ( 3 ) that Elohim had not then created either a habitation for the blessed , or a future prison - house for the damned ; and we pointed ...
... existence of a future world a matter of sufficient consequence to communicate to His friends ; or ( 3 ) that Elohim had not then created either a habitation for the blessed , or a future prison - house for the damned ; and we pointed ...
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... existence of angels . When treating , however , a subject like the religions of the ancient and modern world , it is difficult to frame the history so as to bring out the salient points , in a manner satisfactory to the reader or to the ...
... existence of angels . When treating , however , a subject like the religions of the ancient and modern world , it is difficult to frame the history so as to bring out the salient points , in a manner satisfactory to the reader or to the ...
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... existence - they eat to keep themselves warm , and they must be anchorets as rigid as any Theban hermit whilst they are seeking their prey . With a temperature below zero , and winter huts constructed of ice , chastity is almost a ...
... existence - they eat to keep themselves warm , and they must be anchorets as rigid as any Theban hermit whilst they are seeking their prey . With a temperature below zero , and winter huts constructed of ice , chastity is almost a ...
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