The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages : in Three Volumes, Volume 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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... performed the task far better , in many respects ; but on some accounts , my want of learning is an advantage . Thoughts do not range so freely , when the store - room of the brain is overloaded with furniture . In the course of my ...
... performed the task far better , in many respects ; but on some accounts , my want of learning is an advantage . Thoughts do not range so freely , when the store - room of the brain is overloaded with furniture . In the course of my ...
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... performed by these saints . There are traditions that some of them were taken up alive to heaven ; and impressions on the rocks are shown , said to be footprints they left when they ascended . By extraor- dinary purification and ...
... performed by these saints . There are traditions that some of them were taken up alive to heaven ; and impressions on the rocks are shown , said to be footprints they left when they ascended . By extraor- dinary purification and ...
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... performed sacrifices to regain their lost fortune . This course was respected as pious and meritorious ; but it was deemed a great sin for such men to represent themselves as belong- ing to the class of voluntary saints . They often ...
... performed sacrifices to regain their lost fortune . This course was respected as pious and meritorious ; but it was deemed a great sin for such men to represent themselves as belong- ing to the class of voluntary saints . They often ...
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... performed , they might work their way upward to the primeval condition from which they fell . But if they sinned ... perform this mis- sion successfully , he assumed various forms at different times , and was twice incarnated in a human ...
... performed , they might work their way upward to the primeval condition from which they fell . But if they sinned ... perform this mis- sion successfully , he assumed various forms at different times , and was twice incarnated in a human ...
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... . " Departed souls are de- pendent on the good offices of those who survive them ; therefore it is enjoined that sacrifices be performed for the souls of ancestors as far back as the third generation 18 PROGRESS OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS .
... . " Departed souls are de- pendent on the good offices of those who survive them ; therefore it is enjoined that sacrifices be performed for the souls of ancestors as far back as the third generation 18 PROGRESS OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS .
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