Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge, Volume 221852 |
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... according to the ebb or flow of popular feeling . Hadrian . On the accession of Hadrian , a prince whose superstitious addiction Accession of to divination and magic , 3 and whose zealous activity in the maintenance of the Pagan ...
... according to the ebb or flow of popular feeling . Hadrian . On the accession of Hadrian , a prince whose superstitious addiction Accession of to divination and magic , 3 and whose zealous activity in the maintenance of the Pagan ...
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... according to the ancient law , renewed by Trajan , by which the slave who informed against his master was to be put to death . It also appears that Apollonius was of senatorian rank ; a proof , independent of the testi- mony of Eusebius ...
... according to the ancient law , renewed by Trajan , by which the slave who informed against his master was to be put to death . It also appears that Apollonius was of senatorian rank ; a proof , independent of the testi- mony of Eusebius ...
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... according to Tertullian , the cure was wrought on Euhodus , and not on Severus . ( Inquiry into the Secondary Causes , which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the Rapid Growth of Christianity , p . 75. ) This interpretation had been before ...
... according to Tertullian , the cure was wrought on Euhodus , and not on Severus . ( Inquiry into the Secondary Causes , which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the Rapid Growth of Christianity , p . 75. ) This interpretation had been before ...
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... according to pagan notions , with confirmed obstinacy . Against all such , therefore , as infringed this clause the punishment of death was denounced ; and to this clause we must assign the occasional severities which were exercised ...
... according to pagan notions , with confirmed obstinacy . Against all such , therefore , as infringed this clause the punishment of death was denounced ; and to this clause we must assign the occasional severities which were exercised ...
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... according to the caprice of the different provincial governors , but they were even marked by circumstances more harrowing than imagination can conceive that cruelty could inflict . A. D. 311 . Edict of Galerius . In Egypt , Syria , and ...
... according to the caprice of the different provincial governors , but they were even marked by circumstances more harrowing than imagination can conceive that cruelty could inflict . A. D. 311 . Edict of Galerius . In Egypt , Syria , and ...
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Page 61 - And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Page 146 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee ? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia : and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth : and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Page 146 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 170 - But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God : this did not Abraham.
Page 186 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 120 - Wilson's Illustration of the Method of explaining the New Testament, by the early opinions of Jews and Christians concerning Christ.
Page 131 - If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee, lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him; thou shalt surely help with him.
Page 167 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole : and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it shall live. "And...
Page 147 - Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind...
Page 30 - An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the rapid growth of Christianity.