History of Priestcraft in All Ages and NationsE. Wilson, 1833 - 260 pages |
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... offered up nine victims , er men or animals . But the most solemn sacri- were those which were offered at Upsal in Swe- very ninth year . Then the king , the senate , and e principal citizens were obliged to appear in 1 , and to bring ...
... offered up nine victims , er men or animals . But the most solemn sacri- were those which were offered at Upsal in Swe- very ninth year . Then the king , the senate , and e principal citizens were obliged to appear in 1 , and to bring ...
Page 36
... offered his son in sacrifice to his enemy , Harold . Aune , king to Odin the blood of his nine e god to prolong his life . The e north abounds in similar ex- sacrifices were accompanied with When the victim was chosen , towards the ...
... offered his son in sacrifice to his enemy , Harold . Aune , king to Odin the blood of his nine e god to prolong his life . The e north abounds in similar ex- sacrifices were accompanied with When the victim was chosen , towards the ...
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... offered a human sac was undoubtedly m menes , the Messini among whom was Sparta , to Jupiter to procure the assi sians , sacrificed so find in Plutarch . upon which young bundles of rods ; s tised by the Laced dren , sometimes to To the ...
... offered a human sac was undoubtedly m menes , the Messini among whom was Sparta , to Jupiter to procure the assi sians , sacrificed so find in Plutarch . upon which young bundles of rods ; s tised by the Laced dren , sometimes to To the ...
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... offered . Hence we read of Polyxena's sacrificed to Achilles ; and Homer relates how ro butchered twelve Trojan captives at the funeral roclus . Æneas , whom Virgil celebrates for his is an example of the same practice : y Sulmone ...
... offered . Hence we read of Polyxena's sacrificed to Achilles ; and Homer relates how ro butchered twelve Trojan captives at the funeral roclus . Æneas , whom Virgil celebrates for his is an example of the same practice : y Sulmone ...
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... offered the most extravagant sums for his nce ; but the soldiers of Mahmoud only proceeded reater ardour to demolish ... offering of money ; that a large part of the e of the island is allotted for the maintenance Brahmins who inhabit it ...
... offered the most extravagant sums for his nce ; but the soldiers of Mahmoud only proceeded reater ardour to demolish ... offering of money ; that a large part of the e of the island is allotted for the maintenance Brahmins who inhabit it ...
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Page 137 - Their martyred blood and ashes sow O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 137 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 135 - Fear not the tyrants shall rule for ever, Or the priests of the bloody faith ; They stand on the brink of that mighty river Whose waves they have tainted with death : It is fed from the depths of a thousand dells, Around them it foams and rages and swells, And their swords and their sceptres I floating see, Like wrecks, in the surge of eternity.
Page 99 - where two or three were gathered together in his name, he would be in the midst of them...
Page 231 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Page 57 - Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh ; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them : so the land became Pharaoh's.
Page 195 - For the poor ye have always with you; but Me ye have not always.
Page 217 - The schools of Oxford and Cambridge were founded in a dark age of false and barbarous science; and they are still tainted with the vices of their origin. Their primitive discipline was adapted to the education of priests and monks; and the government still remains in the hands of the clergy, an order of men whose manners are remote from the present world, and whose eyes are dazzled by the light of philosophy.
Page 109 - So shall the World go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning, till the day Appear of respiration to the just And vengeance to the wicked, at return Of Him so lately promised to thy aid, The Woman's Seed — obscurely then foretold, Now amplier known thy Saviour and thy Lord...
Page 249 - Contemptuous of all honourable rule, Yet bartering freedom and the poor man's life For gold, as at a market ! The sweet words Of Christian promise, words that even yet Might stem destruction, were they wisely preached, Are muttered o'er by men, whose tones proclaim How flat and wearisome they feel their trade : Bank scoffers some, but most too indolent To deem them falsehoods or to know their truth.