 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 290 Seiten
...doctrine professed in the schools or preached in the temples." On the contrary, its deities and its rites "were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or private life." In comparison with many Oriental peoples we are an irreligious and God-forsaken nation.... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 310 Seiten
...doctrine professed in the schools or preached in the temples." On the contrary, its deities and its rites "were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or private life." In comparison with many Oriental peoples we are an irreligious and God-forsaken nation.... | |
 | Franklin Henry Giddings - 1906 - 588 Seiten
...nations was not merely a speculative doctrine professed in the schools or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were...business or pleasure, of public or of private life ; and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them, without, at the same time, renouncing the commerce... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 632 Seiten
...the confession of the Daemons themselves as often as they were tormented by the Christian exorcists. closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or of private life ; and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them, without, at the same time, renouncing the commerce... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1909 - 384 Seiten
...merely a speculative doctrine professed in the schools or taught in the temples. The innumerable duties and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or of pleasure, of public or of private life ; and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them... | |
 | James J. L. Ratton - 1915 - 566 Seiten
...escape their meshes. Tertullian, writing, about the year 200, notices this state of affairs. He says : " The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were...circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or private life, and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them without at the same time renouncing... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 Seiten
...nations was not merely a speculative doctrine, professed in the schools or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were...business or pleasure, of public or of private life, and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them, without, at the same time, renouncing the commerce... | |
 | George Weston Briggs - 1920 - 290 Seiten
...Chamars to-day are not unlike those that opposed Christianity in the Roman Empire. Gibbon wrote : " The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were...closely interwoven with every circumstance of business and pleasure, of public or private life, and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 274 Seiten
...arduous duty of a Christian to preserve himself pure and undefiled by the practice of idolatry." But the "innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were...business or pleasure, of public or of private life," and it seemed "impossible to escape the observance of them, Fact, Fiction, and Value Gibbon's ideas of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 Seiten
...nations was not merely a speculative doctrine professed in the schools1 or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were...business or pleasure, of public or of private life, and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them, without, at the same time, renouncing the commerce... | |
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The religion of the nations was not merely a speculative doctrine professed in the schools or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or... 
