Lectures, Delivered at Bowdoin College: And Occasional SermonsJoseph Griffin, 1822 - 411 páginas |
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... kind , as to disgrace and belie the Christian religion , would his admirable poem have acquir- ed popularity in a Christian nation ? Ancient poets had not less sagacity , than those of later times . Would the poets of Greece and Italy ...
... kind , as to disgrace and belie the Christian religion , would his admirable poem have acquir- ed popularity in a Christian nation ? Ancient poets had not less sagacity , than those of later times . Would the poets of Greece and Italy ...
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... not * You may imagine , says Lord Bacon what kind of faith theirs was , when the chief fathers and doctors of the church were the poets . Vol . I. 449 . · the language of the illiterate vulgar , but of two 4 LECTURE I.
... not * You may imagine , says Lord Bacon what kind of faith theirs was , when the chief fathers and doctors of the church were the poets . Vol . I. 449 . · the language of the illiterate vulgar , but of two 4 LECTURE I.
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... kind of idolatry con- sisted in the worship of the heavenly bodies . * Of all nat- ural objects , these are the most striking . In addition to their majesty and lustre , their apparent motions , and the in- fluence , which they have on ...
... kind of idolatry con- sisted in the worship of the heavenly bodies . * Of all nat- ural objects , these are the most striking . In addition to their majesty and lustre , their apparent motions , and the in- fluence , which they have on ...
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... kind of idolatry . The sun , moon , and stars , there is little doubt , were first wor- shipped , not as independent Deities , but as subordinate to the eternal Sovereign of the Universe . This kind of worship appears to have prevailed ...
... kind of idolatry . The sun , moon , and stars , there is little doubt , were first wor- shipped , not as independent Deities , but as subordinate to the eternal Sovereign of the Universe . This kind of worship appears to have prevailed ...
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And Occasional Sermons Jesse Appleton. to that of the celestial bodies . How this kind of worship originated , it is impossible for us to determine . Like the other , it was , we have reason to believe , introduced by in- sensible ...
And Occasional Sermons Jesse Appleton. to that of the celestial bodies . How this kind of worship originated , it is impossible for us to determine . Like the other , it was , we have reason to believe , introduced by in- sensible ...
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