History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - Ethics |
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... appear in the Church of the first three centuries . The sense of sin was not yet accompanied by a denial of the goodness that exists in man . Christianity was regarded rather as a redemption from error than from sin , 1 and it is a ...
... appear in the Church of the first three centuries . The sense of sin was not yet accompanied by a denial of the goodness that exists in man . Christianity was regarded rather as a redemption from error than from sin , 1 and it is a ...
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... appear clad in sackcloth , with ashes strewn upon his head , with his hair shaven off , and thus to throw himself at the feet of the minister , to confess aloud his sins , and to implore the favour of absolution . The excommunicated man ...
... appear clad in sackcloth , with ashes strewn upon his head , with his hair shaven off , and thus to throw himself at the feet of the minister , to confess aloud his sins , and to implore the favour of absolution . The excommunicated man ...
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... appear , I think , that the experiment was very sufficiently tried . It is easy to make a catalogue of the glaring vices of antiquity , and to contrast them with the pure morality of Christian writings ; but , if we desire to form a ...
... appear , I think , that the experiment was very sufficiently tried . It is easy to make a catalogue of the glaring vices of antiquity , and to contrast them with the pure morality of Christian writings ; but , if we desire to form a ...
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... appear to involve an unlimited permission of infanticide ; but a very old law , popularly ascribed to Romulus , in this respect re- stricted the parental rights , enjoining the father to bring up 1 Ælian , Varia Hist . ii . 7. Pas ...
... appear to involve an unlimited permission of infanticide ; but a very old law , popularly ascribed to Romulus , in this respect re- stricted the parental rights , enjoining the father to bring up 1 Ælian , Varia Hist . ii . 7. Pas ...
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... appears to have been com- mon in Rome till the corrupt and sensual days of the Empire . The legislators then absolutely condemned it , and it was indirectly discouraged by laws which accorded special privi- leges to the fathers of many ...
... appears to have been com- mon in Rome till the corrupt and sensual days of the Empire . The legislators then absolutely condemned it , and it was indirectly discouraged by laws which accorded special privi- leges to the fathers of many ...
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