History of Priestcraft in All Ages and NationsE. Wilson, 1833 - 260 pages |
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... king- doms of Philistia , Moab , Amalek , and others . The principal gods of these countries were Baal , Moloch , and Chemosh but the number of false gods , alto- gether , was extremely numerous . The more gods , the more shrines , the ...
... king- doms of Philistia , Moab , Amalek , and others . The principal gods of these countries were Baal , Moloch , and Chemosh but the number of false gods , alto- gether , was extremely numerous . The more gods , the more shrines , the ...
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... kings . This theory certainly agrees well with what the researches of late years have made known of the great tribes of emigration from the East ; agrees well with what we know of the Gothic or Cuthic na- tions , and with the ...
... kings . This theory certainly agrees well with what the researches of late years have made known of the great tribes of emigration from the East ; agrees well with what we know of the Gothic or Cuthic na- tions , and with the ...
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... kings and priests were noble . In Greece they had their race of demigods , or descendants of the ancient Pe- lasgi , or Cuthites , from whom their priests , augurs , and kings were chosen . Such was the case among the Gauls and Britons ...
... kings and priests were noble . In Greece they had their race of demigods , or descendants of the ancient Pe- lasgi , or Cuthites , from whom their priests , augurs , and kings were chosen . Such was the case among the Gauls and Britons ...
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... kings , ever and anon , awoke from the trance of delusion into which they drew them , and executed ample vengeance ; hewing down their groves and overturning their altars ; but it was not till the general captivity , -till Judah was ...
... kings , ever and anon , awoke from the trance of delusion into which they drew them , and executed ample vengeance ; hewing down their groves and overturning their altars ; but it was not till the general captivity , -till Judah was ...
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... kings ' daughters , whom they called prophetesses and goddesses . These pronounced oracles ; devoted themselves to perpetual virginity ; and kept up the sacred fire in the temple . The power of inflicting pains and penalties , of ...
... kings ' daughters , whom they called prophetesses and goddesses . These pronounced oracles ; devoted themselves to perpetual virginity ; and kept up the sacred fire in the temple . The power of inflicting pains and penalties , of ...
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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...