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... Empire . — Its brief Conflict with Paganism . - Character of its first Organization.— Variations of Thought and Rise of Sects : their essential Difference in the East and West . — The three primitive Forms of Christianity : the Judaic ...
... Empire . — Its brief Conflict with Paganism . - Character of its first Organization.— Variations of Thought and Rise of Sects : their essential Difference in the East and West . — The three primitive Forms of Christianity : the Judaic ...
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... 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 and that it lightened the task of the emperors ...
... 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 and that it lightened the task of the emperors ...
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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 contempla- tion of its final day . It occupies itself with ...
... 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 contempla- tion of its final day . It occupies itself with ...
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... empire it had thus acquired in a harmonious way . To this general conception was added a multitude of adventitious ornaments , some of which were of a rude astronomical , some of a moral , some , doubtless , of a historical kind . The ...
... empire it had thus acquired in a harmonious way . To this general conception was added a multitude of adventitious ornaments , some of which were of a rude astronomical , some of a moral , some , doubtless , of a historical kind . The ...
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... empire European ideas were transmitted to the far East , through that and other similar channels Asiatic ideas found their way to Europe . of Mediter- It At the dawn of trustworthy history , the Phoenicians were masters of the ...
... empire European ideas were transmitted to the far East , through that and other similar channels Asiatic ideas found their way to Europe . of Mediter- It At the dawn of trustworthy history , the Phoenicians were masters of the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Africa Age of Faith Alexandria altogether Anaxagoras ancient animal appear Arabian Arabs Arian Aristotle Arius Asia asserted Athens became become Bishop Bishop of Rome body Buddhism Carthage centuries Charlemagne Christianity Church civilization clergy condition considered Constantine Constantinople council Council of Nicea criterion of truth dæmons death divine doctrine earth ecclesiastical Egypt Egyptian emperor empire eternal Europe European evil existence gods Greece Greek philosophy hence Hippocrates holy human ideas images individual influence intellectual Italy Jews khalifs kings knowledge labour manner matter Mediterranean ment mind monks moral nations nature Nestorians Nestorius never opinion organization origin pagan Pantheism papacy passed period Persian philo physical Plato Plotinus political polytheism pope principle Ptolemy reason religion religious respects result Roman Rome Saracens social Socrates soon soul spirit theology things thought thousand tion true universe views worship
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Página 287 - 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 224 - This universe existed only in the first divine idea yet unexpanded, as if involved in darkness, imperceptible, undefinable, undiscoverable by reason, and undiscovered by revelation, as if it were wholly immersed in sleep : then the sole self-existing power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom.
Página 225 - 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 371 - Long life and victory to Charles, the most pious Augustus, crowned by God the great and pacific emperor of the Romans!
Página 60 - 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 331 - 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 315 - 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 207 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered 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 381 - 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 22 - I am to lead my reader, perhaps in a reluctant path, from the outward phantasmagorial illusions which surround us, and so ostentatiously obtrude themselves on our attention, to something that lies in silence and strength behind. I am to draw his thoughts from the tangible to the invisible, from the limited to the universal, from the changeable to the invariable, from the transitory to the eternal; from the expedients and volitions so largely amusing the life of man, to the predestined and resistless...