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... spirit against a paganized Christianity ; but even this reaction has not the lofty spirituality of the earliest ages ; it has blended with it more than one error , is darkened by more than one superstition . * In the convulsions which ...
... spirit against a paganized Christianity ; but even this reaction has not the lofty spirituality of the earliest ages ; it has blended with it more than one error , is darkened by more than one superstition . * In the convulsions which ...
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... spirit of the Voltairean philo- sophy ; nevertheless , his fine imagination kindles at the sight of the accumulated remains of the civili- zation of the old world ; he draws his pictures with a broad and sympathetic touch , and in his ...
... spirit of the Voltairean philo- sophy ; nevertheless , his fine imagination kindles at the sight of the accumulated remains of the civili- zation of the old world ; he draws his pictures with a broad and sympathetic touch , and in his ...
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... spirit of the East ; his erudition is accompanied with some fresh poetical power . It is quite impossible to enume- rate all the books of Eastern travel , scientific or merely descriptive , which have appeared within the last few years ...
... spirit of the East ; his erudition is accompanied with some fresh poetical power . It is quite impossible to enume- rate all the books of Eastern travel , scientific or merely descriptive , which have appeared within the last few years ...
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... spirit , and furnishes a safe and useful guide in these wide studies . It is enough to mention the historian Josephus . Every one knows that the topographical details taken from his Jewish history are the ultimate reference on this ...
... spirit , and furnishes a safe and useful guide in these wide studies . It is enough to mention the historian Josephus . Every one knows that the topographical details taken from his Jewish history are the ultimate reference on this ...
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... spirits and seemed a sinister augury for our sea voyage , ceased suddenly . The most cordial hospitality awaited us . On Sunday evening I had the joy of hailing the arrival of my brother , * who seemed to me at that moment of departure ...
... spirits and seemed a sinister augury for our sea voyage , ceased suddenly . The most cordial hospitality awaited us . On Sunday evening I had the joy of hailing the arrival of my brother , * who seemed to me at that moment of departure ...
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The Land of the Gospel: Notes of a Journey in the East Edmond Dehault De Pressense No preview available - 2015 |
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