Lectures, Delivered at Bowdoin College: And Occasional SermonsJoseph Griffin, 1822 - 411 pages |
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... nations worshipped a multiplicity of gods , is a proposition , which requires no proof to any one , in the slightest degree , acquainted with the Greek and Roman histo- rians and poets . * So early , as the time of Hesiod , there were ...
... nations worshipped a multiplicity of gods , is a proposition , which requires no proof to any one , in the slightest degree , acquainted with the Greek and Roman histo- rians and poets . * So early , as the time of Hesiod , there were ...
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... nation ? Ancient poets had not less sagacity , than those of later times . Greece and Italy have agreed , almost without an exception , in such representation of religion and the gods , as was gen- erally disbelieved ; and which , if ...
... nation ? Ancient poets had not less sagacity , than those of later times . Greece and Italy have agreed , almost without an exception , in such representation of religion and the gods , as was gen- erally disbelieved ; and which , if ...
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... nations . So far there is no doubt . But in what light these numerous deities were considered , is in some degree less obvious . Dr. Cudworth has employed his extraordinay talents to prove , that , notwithstanding the objects of pagan ...
... nations . So far there is no doubt . But in what light these numerous deities were considered , is in some degree less obvious . Dr. Cudworth has employed his extraordinay talents to prove , that , notwithstanding the objects of pagan ...
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... nations , * De Nat . Deor . I. 86 . L. Herbert , as quoted by Leland . 1. 146 . + Ib . 87 . In Ethiopia , they worshipped their friends immediately after their death , Herod . 2 , 30 . whether barbarous or polished . It is obvious ...
... nations , * De Nat . Deor . I. 86 . L. Herbert , as quoted by Leland . 1. 146 . + Ib . 87 . In Ethiopia , they worshipped their friends immediately after their death , Herod . 2 , 30 . whether barbarous or polished . It is obvious ...
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... nation or community , into which they were received . These Bacchanalia , or Dionysia , were , it seems , of differ- ent kinds , such as the greater , the less , & c . In some of them , it was usual for the worshippers , in their ...
... nation or community , into which they were received . These Bacchanalia , or Dionysia , were , it seems , of differ- ent kinds , such as the greater , the less , & c . In some of them , it was usual for the worshippers , in their ...
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