Lectures, Delivered at Bowdoin College: And Occasional SermonsJoseph Griffin, 1822 - 411 pages |
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... Roman histo- rians and poets . * So early , as the time of Hesiod , there were reckoned thirty thousand gods ... Romans.§ In our inquiry as to the necessity of revelation , it may be convenient to consider , what views of the ...
... Roman histo- rians and poets . * So early , as the time of Hesiod , there were reckoned thirty thousand gods ... Romans.§ In our inquiry as to the necessity of revelation , it may be convenient to consider , what views of the ...
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... Romans , not only generated all the other gods , but even Jupiter himself , as- signing him both father and mother . And this , he tells us , * Cicere de Nat . Dec. 1 , 63 . was tolerated and connived at by the politicians , in LECTURE I.
... Romans , not only generated all the other gods , but even Jupiter himself , as- signing him both father and mother . And this , he tells us , * Cicere de Nat . Dec. 1 , 63 . was tolerated and connived at by the politicians , in LECTURE I.
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... Romans , that to swear by the genius of Cæsar , and to worship him by burning incense on his altar , were used as criteria , by which to try those , who were accused of defec- tion from the established belief . In this way Pliny , as he ...
... Romans , that to swear by the genius of Cæsar , and to worship him by burning incense on his altar , were used as criteria , by which to try those , who were accused of defec- tion from the established belief . In this way Pliny , as he ...
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... Roman people . They , in their turn , instituted an annual festival to her honor . What kind of rites would be practised at the annual celebration of such a character , may be sufficiently known , without reading the accounts ...
... Roman people . They , in their turn , instituted an annual festival to her honor . What kind of rites would be practised at the annual celebration of such a character , may be sufficiently known , without reading the accounts ...
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... Romans . Lactantius mentions the sacrific- ing of human victims to Saturn , as an ancient rite ; informing us , that the sacrifice was not made by immolation at an altar , but by plunging the devoted person from the Milvian bridge into ...
... Romans . Lactantius mentions the sacrific- ing of human victims to Saturn , as an ancient rite ; informing us , that the sacrifice was not made by immolation at an altar , but by plunging the devoted person from the Milvian bridge into ...
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