History of Priestcraft in All Ages and NationsE. Wilson, 1833 - 260 pages |
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... finer one of their defeat and punishment , than that given on Mount Carmel in the days of Ahab and Jezebel . Those pestilential wretches had actu B ally , under royal patronage , corrupted or destroyed the IN ALL AGES . 25.
... finer one of their defeat and punishment , than that given on Mount Carmel in the days of Ahab and Jezebel . Those pestilential wretches had actu B ally , under royal patronage , corrupted or destroyed the IN ALL AGES . 25.
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... given to guests like us A worthier welcome . Soon a man approached , Hooded with sable ; his half - naked limbs Smeared black : the people at his sigh drew round ; The women wailed and wept ; the children turned And hid their faces in ...
... given to guests like us A worthier welcome . Soon a man approached , Hooded with sable ; his half - naked limbs Smeared black : the people at his sigh drew round ; The women wailed and wept ; the children turned And hid their faces in ...
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... given for the full display of the reckless atrocity , the perfidy , and vile arts of the priests , and for many noble and touching incidents arising out of the contact of better natures with the casualties of battle and stratagem . Hoel ...
... given for the full display of the reckless atrocity , the perfidy , and vile arts of the priests , and for many noble and touching incidents arising out of the contact of better natures with the casualties of battle and stratagem . Hoel ...
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... given them their own names ? Would Cæsar and Tacitus have beheld Roman gods in Ger- many and Gaul ? Herodotus , Pluto , and Pythagoras have found those of Greece in Egypt ? Would these gods be , in every country , attended by the same ...
... given them their own names ? Would Cæsar and Tacitus have beheld Roman gods in Ger- many and Gaul ? Herodotus , Pluto , and Pythagoras have found those of Greece in Egypt ? Would these gods be , in every country , attended by the same ...
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... given offence to gods or men . We see in his writings not only continual indica- tions of great moral truths , but the same integrity evinced in sketching the manners of the early ages of his country . We see his favourite hero dragging ...
... given offence to gods or men . We see in his writings not only continual indica- tions of great moral truths , but the same integrity evinced in sketching the manners of the early ages of his country . We see his favourite hero dragging ...
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Page 131 - 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 93 - where two or three were gathered together in his name, he would be in the midst of them...
Page 53 - 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 189 - For the poor ye have always with you; but Me ye have not always.
Page 124 - Thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder, the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under foot.
Page 131 - 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 worshiped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piemontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 211 - 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 129 - 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 vhem it foams, and rages, and swells, And their swords and their sceptres I floating see, Like wrecks, in the surge of eternity.
Page 97 - ... statues of the saints were laid on the ground; and as if the air itself were profaned, and might pollute them by its contact, the priests carefully covered them up, even from their own approach and veneration. The use of...
Page 96 - The nation was of a sudden deprived of all exterior exercise of its religion: the altars were despoiled of their ornaments: the crosses, the relics, the images, the statues of the saints were laid on the ground...