The Martyrs: Or, The Triumph of the Christian Religion, Band 2Whiting and Watson; John Forbes, printer, 1812 |
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... already calculated upon a victory , which required a strength far superior to what I at that time possessed . My soul was still fee- ble from the effects of its former indifference and vicious habits ; I even found in the doubts of my ...
... already calculated upon a victory , which required a strength far superior to what I at that time possessed . My soul was still fee- ble from the effects of its former indifference and vicious habits ; I even found in the doubts of my ...
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... already listening to the words of the Druidess . " She moved her eyes for some time over these warriors , the representatives of a people who first dared to say to mankind : " Woe to the van- quished ! " Impious curse , it has now ...
... already listening to the words of the Druidess . " She moved her eyes for some time over these warriors , the representatives of a people who first dared to say to mankind : " Woe to the van- quished ! " Impious curse , it has now ...
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... already been proscribed by Tibe- rius and even by Nero himself . I demanded al- so that they should put into my hands as hostages the Druidess Velleda , and her father Segenax , the first magistrate of the Rhedones . On the same evening ...
... already been proscribed by Tibe- rius and even by Nero himself . I demanded al- so that they should put into my hands as hostages the Druidess Velleda , and her father Segenax , the first magistrate of the Rhedones . On the same evening ...
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... already hear their cries ? " " Velleda ceased , and listened with anxious at- tention . " After a few moments of silence , she said : " When I shall be no more , promise me to in- form my father of my fate . When any one dies , thou ...
... already hear their cries ? " " Velleda ceased , and listened with anxious at- tention . " After a few moments of silence , she said : " When I shall be no more , promise me to in- form my father of my fate . When any one dies , thou ...
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... " virtue exists no longer , let us at least merit the punishments of eternity by enjoying the trans- " ports of the present life . " 1 " Such were my execrable sentiments . Con- founding already OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION .. 59.
... " virtue exists no longer , let us at least merit the punishments of eternity by enjoying the trans- " ports of the present life . " 1 " Such were my execrable sentiments . Con- founding already OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION .. 59.
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Achaia Æneid altar ancient Angel appeared Armorica arms arrived Astarte Athens Barbarians beauty behold bishop blood bosom Cæsar capitol Carausius catechumen celebrated Christians church Constantine covered cries Cymodocea Cyrillus Dæmon daughter of Homer death Demodocus descended desert Dioclesian divine Dorotheus Druidess Druids earth Egypt Emperor empire endeavoured eternal Eudorus exclaimed eyes Faithful father favour fear feet festival forests Galerius gates Gauls gods Greece grotto hand happiness head heart heaven Hierocles holy honour illustrious Jesus Christ Jupiter Lacedæmon Lasthenes martyr ment Messenia modocea mountains Muses night palace Plutarch priest of Homer prince pro-consul Ptolemy religion Rhedones Roman Rome ruins sacred sacrifice saluted sand says Segenax senate Sephora shore soldiers son of Lasthenes soon soul spouse summit Taygetus tears tempest temple Teutates thee Thermæ thou tomb Velleda victory virgin virtue voice warrior waves whilst wind words worship youth
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Seite 135 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 133 - And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd ; For contemplation he, and valour, form'd ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...
Seite 42 - How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads, To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof, By its own weight made stedfast and immovable, Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Seite 133 - His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad: She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore Dishevelled, but in wanton ringlets waved As the vine curls her tendrils, which implied Subjection, but required with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best received Yielded, with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.
Seite 75 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved: if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Seite 85 - Egyptian plain (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen and two hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to the wars...
Seite 181 - The rites and institutions, by which the Greeks, Romans, and other nations, had formerly testified their religious veneration for fictitious deities, were now adopted, with some slight alterations, by Christian bishops, and employed in the service of the true God.
Seite 182 - Hence it happened, that in these times, the religion of the Greeks and Romans differed very little, in its external appearance, from that of the Christians. They had both a most pompous and splendid ritual. Gorgeous robes, mitres, tiaras, wax tapers, crosiers," processions," lustrations, images, gold and silver vases, and many such circumstances of pageantry, were equally to be seen in the heathen temples and the Christian churches.