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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Page 24
... speaking of some happy hunting ground to which his soul will pass after death ; but I am unable to find any reliable testimony in support of this poetic notion . To me it seems that the Red Indian is nothing more than one of a ferocious ...
... speaking of some happy hunting ground to which his soul will pass after death ; but I am unable to find any reliable testimony in support of this poetic notion . To me it seems that the Red Indian is nothing more than one of a ferocious ...
Page 57
... speak , in " holy orders . " The priest's business was to minister in the temple ; his science was confined to a knowledge of the fasts and festivals to be observed in connection with religion , for these were very numerous , and ...
... speak , in " holy orders . " The priest's business was to minister in the temple ; his science was confined to a knowledge of the fasts and festivals to be observed in connection with religion , for these were very numerous , and ...
Page 73
... or sublimity of thought that could only be attained by a profoundly intelligent intellect . Moderns might equal it , none could surpass it . Speaking of the beginning , the words run , " Nothing that is , was then ; even what 73.
... or sublimity of thought that could only be attained by a profoundly intelligent intellect . Moderns might equal it , none could surpass it . Speaking of the beginning , the words run , " Nothing that is , was then ; even what 73.
Page 78
... both . 39.66 No. 12 has many interpretations in the A. V. , viz . , " meditation , ' speak- ing , " " talking , " " complaining , " declaring , " in one instance only is 99 66 conduct has been the same as that of modern Christians 78.
... both . 39.66 No. 12 has many interpretations in the A. V. , viz . , " meditation , ' speak- ing , " " talking , " " complaining , " declaring , " in one instance only is 99 66 conduct has been the same as that of modern Christians 78.
Page 79
... speak to , " or " call upon . " Anah , No. 1 , is Aramaic . I think that it was Mons . Weill , in his remarkable book called Moise et le Talmud , who first drew attention to the influence of the Talmudists upon the Jewish Scriptures ...
... speak to , " or " call upon . " Anah , No. 1 , is Aramaic . I think that it was Mons . Weill , in his remarkable book called Moise et le Talmud , who first drew attention to the influence of the Talmudists upon the Jewish Scriptures ...
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