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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... 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 notice , whilst prosecuting my search , was a very remark- able one , called The Modern ...
... 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 notice , whilst prosecuting my search , was a very remark- able one , called The Modern ...
Page xix
... supposed to be . God made the Devil , so man must multiply his imps ! Lucifer taught Elohim ! Old Testament less knowing than the New . The Devil not a fallen angel . The book of Enoch . Deductions drawn , • • PAGE 310 CHAPTER X. The ...
... supposed to be . God made the Devil , so man must multiply his imps ! Lucifer taught Elohim ! Old Testament less knowing than the New . The Devil not a fallen angel . The book of Enoch . Deductions drawn , • • PAGE 310 CHAPTER X. The ...
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... supposed by so many to be : that not only it is not a revelation given by God to man , but that it is founded upon ideas of the Almighty which are contradicted by the whole of animate and inanimate nature . We showed , that its ...
... supposed by so many to be : that not only it is not a revelation given by God to man , but that it is founded upon ideas of the Almighty which are contradicted by the whole of animate and inanimate nature . We showed , that its ...
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... supposed between the one type and the other . Thus the gap between mammals and birds is said to be filled by the " ornithorhynchus paradoxus , " an animal living in a vast island , in which scarcely one quadruped mammalian is known to ...
... supposed between the one type and the other . Thus the gap between mammals and birds is said to be filled by the " ornithorhynchus paradoxus , " an animal living in a vast island , in which scarcely one quadruped mammalian is known to ...
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... supposed to have supernatural power , and to be able to attract good or to banish evil fortune from the chief and his people . Practically , the Red Indian is as super- stitious about lucky and unlucky days as was the Hebrew David and ...
... supposed to have supernatural power , and to be able to attract good or to banish evil fortune from the chief and his people . Practically , the Red Indian is as super- stitious about lucky and unlucky days as was the Hebrew David and ...
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