 | Tessa Rajak - 2002 - 604 Seiten
...put it better than Gibbon does, writing about the predicament of the Christian (in his 15th chapter): 'the innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven with every circumstances of business or pleasure, of public or private life; and it seemed impossible to escape... | |
 | Abulḥasan ʻAlī Nadvī - 2005 - 141 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 closely interwoven with every circumstances of business or pleasure, of public or private life; and it seemed impossible to escape... | |
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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... 
