| Christianity - 1803 - 430 pages
...or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of...time renouncing the commerce of mankind and all the offices-and amusements of society. Th« important transactions of peace and war were prepared or concluded... | |
| Rev. William Tennant - India - 1808 - 384 pages
...with every circumstance of business and of pleasure, and that it is almost impossible to lay aside the observance of them, without, at the same time, renouncing the commerce of mankind, and the amusements of society *. These circumstances were overlooked which might have taught them that... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1812 - 586 pages
...of polytheism were closely interwoven, with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or private life; and it seemed impossible to escape the...mankind, and all the offices and amusements of society." (290) " The Christian, who with pious horror avoided the abomination of the circus, or the theatre,... | |
| Missions - 1841 - 712 pages
...or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of...mankind, and all the offices and amusements of society." With the applicableness of the whole succeeding passage to the actual difficulties met here, I have... | |
| Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 850 pages
...pressed the observation, " that the innumerable deities and rites of Polytheism were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or of private life ;" and I had particularly specified how much the Roman discipline was connected with the national superstition.... | |
| Arminianism - 1857 - 1196 pages
...of polytheism were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or private life ; and it seemed impossible to escape...the same time renouncing the commerce of mankind." So great, indeed, was the influence of Paganism upon society, that not only were its high and stately... | |
| John Sheppard - Apologetics - 1829 - 416 pages
...repeat a former citation) " it seemed impossible to escape the observance of the rites of polytheism, without at the same time renouncing the commerce of...mankind, and all the offices and amusements of society."" Lastly, let us recollect that lax and pliant scheme of morals," just now considered, by which heathenism... | |
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of...the same time renouncing the commerce of mankind. The important transactions of peace and war were prepared or concluded by solemn sacrifices, in which... | |
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of...the same time renouncing the commerce of mankind. The important transactions of peace and war were prepared or concluded by solemn sacrifices, in which... | |
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of...the same time renouncing the commerce of mankind. The important transactions of peace and war were prepared or concluded by solemn sacrifices, in which... | |
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