History of Priestcraft in All Ages and NationsE. Wilson, 1833 - 260 pages |
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Page 70
... holy torches of Eleusis were waved on high by mimic furies ; the snakes of Trip- tolemus hissed a loud defiance , and the howling of the infernal dogs resounded through the awful gloom , which resembled the malignant and imperfect light ...
... holy torches of Eleusis were waved on high by mimic furies ; the snakes of Trip- tolemus hissed a loud defiance , and the howling of the infernal dogs resounded through the awful gloom , which resembled the malignant and imperfect light ...
Page 71
... holy nation , they , being shut up in their houses , the prisoners of darkness , and fettered with the bonds of a long night , lay there fugitives from the Eternal Providence . For while they were supposed to lie hid in their secret ...
... holy nation , they , being shut up in their houses , the prisoners of darkness , and fettered with the bonds of a long night , lay there fugitives from the Eternal Providence . For while they were supposed to lie hid in their secret ...
Page 75
... holy perfidy had pre- viously secured . The deposites at the great temple of Ephesus , considered through all ages as inviolable , probably far exceeded those of the three last men- tioned . The spirit of avarice , which in all times ...
... holy perfidy had pre- viously secured . The deposites at the great temple of Ephesus , considered through all ages as inviolable , probably far exceeded those of the three last men- tioned . The spirit of avarice , which in all times ...
Page 78
... holy texts is equal to ambrosia ; the head and flesh also afford much delight to Chandica . Let , therefore , the learned , when paying adoration to the goddess , offer blood and the head , and when perform- ing the sacrifice to fire ...
... holy texts is equal to ambrosia ; the head and flesh also afford much delight to Chandica . Let , therefore , the learned , when paying adoration to the goddess , offer blood and the head , and when perform- ing the sacrifice to fire ...
Page 83
... holy fane of Kreeshna , at Mathura , he found five great idols of pure gold , with eyes of rubies , of im- mense value . He found also three hundred idols of silver , which , being melted down , loaded as many camels with bullion ; the ...
... holy fane of Kreeshna , at Mathura , he found five great idols of pure gold , with eyes of rubies , of im- mense value . He found also three hundred idols of silver , which , being melted down , loaded as many camels with bullion ; 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...