The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages : in Three Volumes, Volume 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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... Laws and Writings of Moses , 402 to 411. Joshua , 411 . Gideon , 415. Frequent Appearance of Angels , 384 , 387 ... Law , 447. The Kings after Solomon , 440 to 449. Exile to Babylon , 449 . PREFACE . I WOULD candidly advise persons who ...
... Laws and Writings of Moses , 402 to 411. Joshua , 411 . Gideon , 415. Frequent Appearance of Angels , 384 , 387 ... Law , 447. The Kings after Solomon , 440 to 449. Exile to Babylon , 449 . PREFACE . I WOULD candidly advise persons who ...
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... laws ; And this grand truth from none was hidden , What pleaseth hath no law forbidden . " A great Deluge swept away all the memorials of this age . In the second age , called Treta Yug , men began to be vicious . The term of their ...
... laws ; And this grand truth from none was hidden , What pleaseth hath no law forbidden . " A great Deluge swept away all the memorials of this age . In the second age , called Treta Yug , men began to be vicious . The term of their ...
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... law of alternate emanation and absorption governs all things , from a musquito up to planets , and celestial Spirits . Their vast divisions of time , called Yugs , are founded on the apparent revolution of the fixed stars . Four of ...
... law of alternate emanation and absorption governs all things , from a musquito up to planets , and celestial Spirits . Their vast divisions of time , called Yugs , are founded on the apparent revolution of the fixed stars . Four of ...
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... laws of divine wisdom have been peculiarly intrusted . They regard other nations as barbarian , and consider it pollution to intermingle with them by marriage , or even by eating with them . Foreigners are not allowed to read their Holy ...
... laws of divine wisdom have been peculiarly intrusted . They regard other nations as barbarian , and consider it pollution to intermingle with them by marriage , or even by eating with them . Foreigners are not allowed to read their Holy ...
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... law is all contained in the Sacred Books , which they alone are allowed to study and explain ; consequently , they are the only lawyers and judges . All knowledge of medicine is derived from the same volumes ; and sickness being ...
... law is all contained in the Sacred Books , which they alone are allowed to study and explain ; consequently , they are the only lawyers and judges . All knowledge of medicine is derived from the same volumes ; and sickness being ...
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