Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... religious feelings , were , at the same time , ignorant , arbitrary , and cruel . With the vanquished people were deposited all the art , the science , and the literature of the Western world . In poetry , in philo- sophy , in painting ...
... religious feelings , were , at the same time , ignorant , arbitrary , and cruel . With the vanquished people were deposited all the art , the science , and the literature of the Western world . In poetry , in philo- sophy , in painting ...
Page 33
... religious bigotry ; and , in consequence , he became a favourite . The English , at that time , considered a Frenchman who talked about constitutional checks and fundamental laws as a prodigy not less astonishing than the learned pig or ...
... religious bigotry ; and , in consequence , he became a favourite . The English , at that time , considered a Frenchman who talked about constitutional checks and fundamental laws as a prodigy not less astonishing than the learned pig or ...
Page 42
... religious truth . The Hindoo mythology , for example , is bound up with a most absurd geography . Every young Brahmin , therefore , who learns geography in our colleges , 4 learns to smile at the Hindoo mythology . If Catholicism 42 ...
... religious truth . The Hindoo mythology , for example , is bound up with a most absurd geography . Every young Brahmin , therefore , who learns geography in our colleges , 4 learns to smile at the Hindoo mythology . If Catholicism 42 ...
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... religious Italians desired a reform of morals and discipline , but not a reform of doctrine , and least of all a schism . The irreligious Italians simply disbelieved Christianity , without hating it . They looked at it as artists or as ...
... religious Italians desired a reform of morals and discipline , but not a reform of doctrine , and least of all a schism . The irreligious Italians simply disbelieved Christianity , without hating it . They looked at it as artists or as ...
Page 50
... religious communities were remodelled and new religious communities called into existence . Within a year after the death of Leo , the order of Camaldoli was purified . The Capuchins restored the old Franciscan discipline , the midnight ...
... religious communities were remodelled and new religious communities called into existence . Within a year after the death of Leo , the order of Camaldoli was purified . The Capuchins restored the old Franciscan discipline , the midnight ...
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