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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... individuals as Bishop Colenso , Bishop Hinds , Mr Voysey , and others . The laity are awaking to the fact that priests are strenuously endeavouring to quench the light of reason in the fogs of faith . Unless the Protestantism , of which ...
... individuals as Bishop Colenso , Bishop Hinds , Mr Voysey , and others . The laity are awaking to the fact that priests are strenuously endeavouring to quench the light of reason in the fogs of faith . Unless the Protestantism , of which ...
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... individual , being the former to His friends , and the latter to His enemies . Indeed , anyone who compares 2 Sam . xxiv . 1 with 1 Chron . xxi . 1 will see this most clearly demonstrated . We called attention to the appa- rently utter ...
... individual , being the former to His friends , and the latter to His enemies . Indeed , anyone who compares 2 Sam . xxiv . 1 with 1 Chron . xxi . 1 will see this most clearly demonstrated . We called attention to the appa- rently utter ...
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... individuals rely is the fact that there is no mention of Jesus by any contemporary historian ; and that , although there are extant Jewish records of current history , at the time in which Christ is said to have lived , they make no ...
... individuals rely is the fact that there is no mention of Jesus by any contemporary historian ; and that , although there are extant Jewish records of current history , at the time in which Christ is said to have lived , they make no ...
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... individuals who interrogate the savages are themselves enthusiasts of a high order , who ask leading questions , and are content to receive , as a satisfactory answer , anything which can be considered as a reply . By this means very ...
... individuals who interrogate the savages are themselves enthusiasts of a high order , who ask leading questions , and are content to receive , as a satisfactory answer , anything which can be considered as a reply . By this means very ...
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... individuals . * A virgin and child were also adored , as they were in Baby- lonia , Assyria , Egypt , and Hindostan , and as they are in a great part of Europe at the present time . The people believed in vast cycles of years , at the ...
... individuals . * A virgin and child were also adored , as they were in Baby- lonia , Assyria , Egypt , and Hindostan , and as they are in a great part of Europe at the present time . The people believed in vast cycles of years , at the ...
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