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RISE , EARLY VARIATIONS , CONFLICTS , AND FINAL ESTABLISHMENT OF
CHRISTIANITY . Rise of Christianity . — Distinguished from ecclesiastical
Organization.It is demanded by the deplorable Condition of the Empire .-- Its brief
Conflict ...
RISE , EARLY VARIATIONS , CONFLICTS , AND FINAL ESTABLISHMENT OF
CHRISTIANITY . Rise of Christianity . — Distinguished from ecclesiastical
Organization.It is demanded by the deplorable Condition of the Empire .-- Its brief
Conflict ...
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If homogeneousness be an element of strength , an empire that lies east and
west must be more powerful than one that lies north and south . I cannot but think
that this was no inconsiderable cause of the greatness and permanence of Rome
...
If homogeneousness be an element of strength , an empire that lies east and
west must be more powerful than one that lies north and south . I cannot but think
that this was no inconsiderable cause of the greatness and permanence of Rome
...
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Empires are only sand - hills in the hour - glass of Time ; they crumble
spontaneously away by the process of their own growth . A nation , like a man ,
hides from itself the contemplation of its final day . It occupies itself with
expedients för ...
Empires are only sand - hills in the hour - glass of Time ; they crumble
spontaneously away by the process of their own growth . A nation , like a man ,
hides from itself the contemplation of its final day . It occupies itself with
expedients för ...
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of the resulting mywhich they are based requires the admission of a primitive
chaotic disturbance of incomprehensible gigantic powers , brought into
subjection by Divine agency , that agency dividing and regulating the empire it
had thus ...
of the resulting mywhich they are based requires the admission of a primitive
chaotic disturbance of incomprehensible gigantic powers , brought into
subjection by Divine agency , that agency dividing and regulating the empire it
had thus ...
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If through the Bactrian empire European ideas were transmitted to the far East ,
through that and other similar channels Asiatic ideas found their way to Europe .
At the dawn of trustworthy history , the Phoenicians were masters of the ...
If through the Bactrian empire European ideas were transmitted to the far East ,
through that and other similar channels Asiatic ideas found their way to Europe .
At the dawn of trustworthy history , the Phoenicians were masters of the ...
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A HISTORY OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER M.D., LLD Vista completa - 1864 |
Términos y frases comunes
advance Alexandria altogether ancient animal appear Asia asserted attempt became become Bishop body brought carried cause centuries Christianity Church civilization condition considered continued course death determined direction divine doctrine earth effect Egypt emperor empire eternal Europe existence fact faith followed force give given gods Greek human ideas important individual influence intellectual interest Italy kind kings knowledge learning less living manner material matter means mind movement nature necessary never object offer once opinion organic origin pagan papacy passed perhaps period Persian philosophy physical political pope position present principle progress reason received regarded relations religion religious remains respects result rise Roman Rome shows social soon soul spirit successive things thought thousand tion true truth turn universe whole
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Página 201 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Página 281 - The holy Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes those who say that, there was a time when the Son of God was not, and that before he was begotten he was not, ' Comforter,' or,
Página 219 - He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person. He, having willed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first with a thought created the waters, and placed in them a productive seed...
Página 114 - Whence also he is all similar, all eye, all ear, all brain, all arm, all power to perceive, to understand, and to act; but in a manner not at all human, in a manner not at all corporeal, in a manner utterly unknown to us. As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
Página 54 - The fundamental tenet of the Vedanti school consisted, not in denying the existence of matter, that is, of solidity, impenetrability, and extended figure, (to deny which would be lunacy) but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending, that it has no essence independent of mental perception, that existence and perceptibility are convertible terms...
Página 309 - If you ask them how they defend these monstrosities ? how things do not fall away from the earth on that side ? they reply that the nature of things is such, that heavy bodies tend...
Página 375 - III, declared that his life was so shameful, so foul, so execrable, that he shuddered to describe it. He ruled like a captain of banditti rather than a prelate. The people at the last, unable to bear his adulteries, homicides, and abominations any longer, rose against him.
Página 325 - Mary, and a spirit proceeding from him. Believe therefore in God, and his apostles, and say not, There are three Gods; forbear this; it will be better for you. God is but one God. Far be it from him that he should have a son!
Página 102 - Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be ; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed ; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexistent things ; so that 'all becoming' might more correctly be called ' becoming mixed,' and all corruption
Información bibliográfica
| Título | A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volumen1 A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, John William Draper Bohn's philol. libr |
| Autor | John William Draper |
| Edición | revisada |
| Editor | Bell, 1875 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 13 Mar 2006 |
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