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... less than such n idolatrous profanation.§ Their attachment to the law of Moses was equal to their detestation of foreign religions . The current of zeal and devotion , as it was contracted into a arrow channel , ran with the strength ...
... less than such n idolatrous profanation.§ Their attachment to the law of Moses was equal to their detestation of foreign religions . The current of zeal and devotion , as it was contracted into a arrow channel , ran with the strength ...
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... less accurately described by Virgil , than they are illustrated by his commentator Servius . The pile itself was an altar , the flames were fed with the blood of victims , and all the assistants were sprinkled with lustral Tertullian de ...
... less accurately described by Virgil , than they are illustrated by his commentator Servius . The pile itself was an altar , the flames were fed with the blood of victims , and all the assistants were sprinkled with lustral Tertullian de ...
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... less alarming occasion . On days of general festivity , it was the custom of the ancients to adorn their doors with lamps and with branches of laurel , and to crown their heads with a garland of flowers . This innocent and elegant ...
... less alarming occasion . On days of general festivity , it was the custom of the ancients to adorn their doors with lamps and with branches of laurel , and to crown their heads with a garland of flowers . This innocent and elegant ...
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... less on the fallacious ments of reason than on the authority of tradition and interpretation of Scripture , expected it with terror and idence as a certain and approaching event ; and as his nd was perpetually filled with the solemn ...
... less on the fallacious ments of reason than on the authority of tradition and interpretation of Scripture , expected it with terror and idence as a certain and approaching event ; and as his nd was perpetually filled with the solemn ...
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... less weighty and respectable than that of the preceding generation , till we are insensibly led on to accuse our own inconsistency , if in the eighth or in the twelfth century we deny to the venerable Bede , or to the holy Bernard , the ...
... less weighty and respectable than that of the preceding generation , till we are insensibly led on to accuse our own inconsistency , if in the eighth or in the twelfth century we deny to the venerable Bede , or to the holy Bernard , the ...
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