History of Priestcraft in All Ages and NationsE. Wilson, 1833 - 260 pages |
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... hand of physical violence , has proclaimed that it was not made for man , but man for it - that it possessed an inherent and divine right to rule , to trample upon men's hearts , to violate their dearest rights , to scatter their limbs ...
... hand of physical violence , has proclaimed that it was not made for man , but man for it - that it possessed an inherent and divine right to rule , to trample upon men's hearts , to violate their dearest rights , to scatter their limbs ...
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... hand of God over the world . Japhet colonized the whole of Europe , all those northern regions called Tartary and Siberia , and , in process of time , by the easy passage of Behring's Straits , the entire continent of America . His son ...
... hand of God over the world . Japhet colonized the whole of Europe , all those northern regions called Tartary and Siberia , and , in process of time , by the easy passage of Behring's Straits , the entire continent of America . His son ...
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... hands . ” adds , " to impress on their minds the idea of a tutelar deity , they carry with them to the field of battle certain images and banners , taken from their usual deposito- He ries the groves ; and that one of these symbols B 3 ...
... hands . ” adds , " to impress on their minds the idea of a tutelar deity , they carry with them to the field of battle certain images and banners , taken from their usual deposito- He ries the groves ; and that one of these symbols B 3 ...
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... hand of a pontiff , whom they took for the instrument of an angry deity . In short , the credu- lity of the people , and the craft and presumption of the priests went so far , that these pretended interpreters of the divine will dared ...
... hand of a pontiff , whom they took for the instrument of an angry deity . In short , the credu- lity of the people , and the craft and presumption of the priests went so far , that these pretended interpreters of the divine will dared ...
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... hand a great bracelet of gold . Hacon , adds the historian , easily conceiving that so long as the idol would not part with the bracelet , it was not disposed to be reconciled to him , and having made some fruitless efforts to take the ...
... hand a great bracelet of gold . Hacon , adds the historian , easily conceiving that so long as the idol would not part with the bracelet , it was not disposed to be reconciled to him , and having made some fruitless efforts to take the ...
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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...