Les voyages de Cyrus: avec un discours sur la théologie et la mythologie des payens, Volume 2chez Bossange, Masson et Besson., 1802 |
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... mind , or to purify the heart . The corruption and avarice of priests , replied Pythagoras , is the source of all these mischiefs . The ministers of the Gods , who were established at first to make men good , turn the priesthood into a ...
... mind , or to purify the heart . The corruption and avarice of priests , replied Pythagoras , is the source of all these mischiefs . The ministers of the Gods , who were established at first to make men good , turn the priesthood into a ...
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... mind are pretty near the same in all countries , and in all times . The particulars of that dispute , answered Pythagoras , will be long , but shall not affect to shorten them lest I should become obscure . Upon my return to Samos ...
... mind are pretty near the same in all countries , and in all times . The particulars of that dispute , answered Pythagoras , will be long , but shall not affect to shorten them lest I should become obscure . Upon my return to Samos ...
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... mind under the three forms of goodness , wisdom and power ; the sovereign good , the principle of all beings , the intelligence which designed the plan of the world , and the energy which executed it . The Orientals call these three ...
... mind under the three forms of goodness , wisdom and power ; the sovereign good , the principle of all beings , the intelligence which designed the plan of the world , and the energy which executed it . The Orientals call these three ...
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... mind ; we then adhere to virtue for the sake of those sweets that accompany it but in proportion as the soul withdraws from out- ward objets , her love becomes more exalted , more delicate and more generous ; she enters deeply into ...
... mind ; we then adhere to virtue for the sake of those sweets that accompany it but in proportion as the soul withdraws from out- ward objets , her love becomes more exalted , more delicate and more generous ; she enters deeply into ...
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... minds , but to corrupt your manners ; he deceives you by sticking to the literal sense of your mythology . The Gods who are exempt from human frailties do not des- cend to satisfy any passions ; all that wise an- tiquity tells us of the ...
... minds , but to corrupt your manners ; he deceives you by sticking to the literal sense of your mythology . The Gods who are exempt from human frailties do not des- cend to satisfy any passions ; all that wise an- tiquity tells us of the ...
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Adonis âmes Anaximander ancient année Astyages autres avait avant avoir Babylon beauty bien c'est Cambyse célestes chose ciel cœur contre corps crimes Cyaxare Cyrus d'une Deity Descartes deux Dieu Dieux différens divine Divinité doctrine earth Ecnibal Egyptians elle enfin espèce esprits état été eternal éternelle être fait faut Gods gouvernement grand Grecs heaven hommes Hystaspes idées infinite intelligences j'ai jamais jour Jupiter l'âme l'autre l'esprit l'on l'ordre l'univers livres lois lui-même lumière Malebranche matière Medes monde mort mortels Mythras n'est Nabonassar Nabuchodonosor nations nature Osiris parfait passions Payens père Perse Persians peuple peut philosophers plaisir Platon Plutarch poëtes premier prince principe produit puissance Pythagore qu'elle qu'il qu'on qu'une que les raison régions religion rendre rien sagesse seul Sorane soul sous souveraine substance suivant sujet suprême tems terre thing tion tous les tout trois Typhon Urania vérité vers vertu voir Voyez Zoroastre
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Page 116 - Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the twoleaved gates ; and the gates shall not be shut...
Page 132 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 117 - I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward,
Page 157 - But some man will say, How are the dead raised up ? and with what body do they come ? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die : And that which thou sowest thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain : But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased Him and to every seed his own body.
Page 132 - Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah ; and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, he is the God which is in Jerusalem.
Page 117 - I have made the earth, and created man upon it : I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their hosts have I commanded.
Page 117 - I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides me ; I girded thee though thou hast not known me...
Page 140 - Osiris, tells us,* that the theology of the Egyptians had two meanings ; the one holy and symbolical, the other vulgar and literal ; and consequently that the figures of animals which they had in their temples, and which they seemed to adore, were only so many hieroglyphics to represent the divine attributes.
Page 128 - Almighty, the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of His goodness...
Page 105 - It was this Messiah who conversed with the patriarchs under a human form: it was he who appeared to Moses upon the Holy Mount : it was he who spoke to the prophets under a visible appearance ; and it is he who will at last come in triumph upon the clouds to restore the universe to its primitive splendour and felicity.