Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... Christian Doctrine , compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone . By JOHN MILTON , translated from the Original by ... Christianity , which , according to Wood and Toland , Milton finished after the Restoration , and deposited with Cyriac ...
... Christian Doctrine , compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone . By JOHN MILTON , translated from the Original by ... Christianity , which , according to Wood and Toland , Milton finished after the Restoration , and deposited with Cyriac ...
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... Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a proselyte , operated more powerfully than this feeling . God , the uncreated , the in- comprehensible , the invisible , attracted few worship- pers . A ...
... Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a proselyte , operated more powerfully than this feeling . God , the uncreated , the in- comprehensible , the invisible , attracted few worship- pers . A ...
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... Christianity had achieved its triumph , the principle which had assisted it began to corrupt it . It became a new Paganism . Patron saints assumed the offices of household gods . St. George took the place of Mars . St. Elmo consoled the ...
... Christianity had achieved its triumph , the principle which had assisted it began to corrupt it . It became a new Paganism . Patron saints assumed the offices of household gods . St. George took the place of Mars . St. Elmo consoled the ...
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... Christian name a synonym for the Devil.1 It is indeed scarcely possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so ...
... Christian name a synonym for the Devil.1 It is indeed scarcely possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so ...
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... Christians . Some members of the democratical party censured the Secretary for dedicating The Prince to a patron who bore the unpopular name of Medici . But to those immoral doctrines which have since called forth such severe ...
... Christians . Some members of the democratical party censured the Secretary for dedicating The Prince to a patron who bore the unpopular name of Medici . But to those immoral doctrines which have since called forth such severe ...
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