Pliny's LettersW. Blackwood and sons, 1872 - 4 páginas |
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Página 154 - For it appears to be a matter highly deserving your consideration, more especially as great numbers must be involved in the danger of these prosecutions, which have already extended, and are still likely to extend, to persons of all ranks and ages, and even of both sexes. In fact, this contagious superstition is not confined to the cities only, but has spread its infection among the neighboring villages and country.
Página 153 - ... purpose I had ordered to be brought, together with those of the gods), and even reviled the name of Christ: whereas there is no forcing, it is said, those who are really Christians into any of these compliances: I thought it proper, therefore, to discharge them.
Página 153 - Christ, as to some god, binding themselves by a solemn oath, not for the purposes of any wicked design, but never to commit any fraud, theft, or adultery ; never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up ; after which it was their custom to separate, and then re-assemble, to eat in common a harmless meal.
Página 154 - ... where the party denies he is a Christian, and shall make it evident that he is not by invoking our Gods; let him (notwithstanding any former suspicion) be pardoned upon his repentance.
Página 172 - Mr Collins has gone over the ' Odyssey" with loving hands, and he tells its eternally fresh story so admirably, and picks out the best passages so skilfully, that he gives us a charming volume. In the ' Odyssey,' as treated by Mr Collins, we have a story-book that might charm a child or amuse and instruct the wisest man.
Página 153 - I judged it so much the more necessary to endeavor to extort the real truth, by putting two female slaves to the torture, who were said to officiate in their religious rites; but all I could discover was evidence of an absurd and extravagant superstition.