Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 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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... having some visible and tangible object of adoration . Perhaps none of the secondary causes which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever MILTON . 21.
... having some visible and tangible object of adoration . Perhaps none of the secondary causes which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever MILTON . 21.
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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 synonyme for the Devil . * It is indeed scarcely possible for any person , not well ac- quainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read with- out horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has ...
... Christian name a synonyme for the Devil . * It is indeed scarcely possible for any person , not well ac- quainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read with- out horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has ...
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... Christians . Some members of the democratical party cen- sured 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 reprehen ...
... Christians . Some members of the democratical party cen- sured 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 reprehen ...
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