The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages : in Three Volumes, Volume 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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... lived to an immense age , and were more than thirty feet high . They were too innocent to have need of government , and so unselfish that all the goods of life were equally distributed . " Delightful times ! because Nature then reigned ...
... lived to an immense age , and were more than thirty feet high . They were too innocent to have need of government , and so unselfish that all the goods of life were equally distributed . " Delightful times ! because Nature then reigned ...
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... lived in caverns , or under the shelter of a few boughs , which they twisted together in the shadow of some great tree . Their furniture consisted merely of an antelope skin to sleep on , a vase to receive alms , a pitcher for water , a ...
... lived in caverns , or under the shelter of a few boughs , which they twisted together in the shadow of some great tree . Their furniture consisted merely of an antelope skin to sleep on , a vase to receive alms , a pitcher for water , a ...
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... lived less than one thousand years , and all left a numerous offspring . None of them went without ear - rings , necklaces , garlands , perfumes , and rich- ly ornamented garments . No one gave the Bramins less HINDOSTAN , OR INDIA . 51.
... lived less than one thousand years , and all left a numerous offspring . None of them went without ear - rings , necklaces , garlands , perfumes , and rich- ly ornamented garments . No one gave the Bramins less HINDOSTAN , OR INDIA . 51.
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... lived in their midst . Hence we meet everywhere with warriors and saints , who were believed to be deities in disguise . History and mythology consequently mix together in such a confused tangle , that it is often impossible to tell ...
... lived in their midst . Hence we meet everywhere with warriors and saints , who were believed to be deities in disguise . History and mythology consequently mix together in such a confused tangle , that it is often impossible to tell ...
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... lived in the midst of beauty and magnificence . His carriage , studded with jewels , glittered like the sun ; and when he rode forth , women mounted on the roofs of the houses , to gaze after it as long as it was possible . The father ...
... lived in the midst of beauty and magnificence . His carriage , studded with jewels , glittered like the sun ; and when he rode forth , women mounted on the roofs of the houses , to gaze after it as long as it was possible . The father ...
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