History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, Volume 2Appleton, 1877 - Ethics |
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... represented it as altogether under the empire of evil , and have sometimes risen to such a height of extravagance as to pronounce the very virtues of the heathen to be of the nature of sin . But nothing can be more certain than that ...
... represented it as altogether under the empire of evil , and have sometimes risen to such a height of extravagance as to pronounce the very virtues of the heathen to be of the nature of sin . But nothing can be more certain than that ...
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... represented by the Fathers as a period of general and scandalous vice . The ecclesiastical civilisation that fol- lowed , though not without its distinctive merits , assuredly supplies no justification of the common boast about the re ...
... represented by the Fathers as a period of general and scandalous vice . The ecclesiastical civilisation that fol- lowed , though not without its distinctive merits , assuredly supplies no justification of the common boast about the re ...
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... representing exposition as the avowed and habitual practice of poor parents , are collected by Terme et Monfalcon , Hist . des En- fans trouvés , pp . 39-45 . Tacitus notices with praise ( Germania , xix . ) that the Germans did not ...
... representing exposition as the avowed and habitual practice of poor parents , are collected by Terme et Monfalcon , Hist . des En- fans trouvés , pp . 39-45 . Tacitus notices with praise ( Germania , xix . ) that the Germans did not ...
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... represents Chremes as having , as a matter of course , charged his pregnant wife to have her child killed provided it was a girl . The mother , overcome by pity , shrank from doing so , and secretly gave it to an old woman to expose it ...
... represents Chremes as having , as a matter of course , charged his pregnant wife to have her child killed provided it was a girl . The mother , overcome by pity , shrank from doing so , and secretly gave it to an old woman to expose it ...
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... represented them as a definite sin , the sin of murder , for which the spectators as well as the actors were directly responsible before Heaven . In the very latest days of the Pagan Empire , magnificent amphitheatres were still arising ...
... represented them as a definite sin , the sin of murder , for which the spectators as well as the actors were directly responsible before Heaven . In the very latest days of the Pagan Empire , magnificent amphitheatres were still arising ...
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