The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated: To which is Prefixed, a Discourse by Way of General Preface: Containing Some Account Of, the Life, Writings and Character of the Author. By Richard Hurd, Band 1Thomas Tegg, 1846 |
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The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated: To Which Is Prefixed, a Discourse ... William Warburton,Richard Hurd, bp. Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Alliance amongst ancient antiquity appears Apuleius argument Aristophanes Atheist Bayle bishop bishop Warburton called Ceres character Christian Church Cicero civil Society concerning difference of things Diodorus Siculus discourse Divine Legation doctrine edit Eleusinian Eleusinian Mysteries essential difference esteem genius give Gods hath Hierophant honour human idea initiated justice Lawgiver laws learned letter liberty Lord Lordship Magistrate mankind manner matter ment mind moral attributes moral sense Mysteries nature never obligation observed occasion opinion Paganism passions Philosophers Plato Plutarch poet Polytheism Pope pretended principles Pythagoras quæ reader reason Religion rewards and punishments ridicule rites says sect shew shewn Socinian speak suppose tells thought tion true truth Virgil virtue Warburton WILLIAM WARBURTON words worship writer Zaleucus γὰρ δὲ εἰς ἐν καὶ μὲν οἱ περὶ πρὸς τὰ τὰς τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῶν ὡς
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 502 - But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
Seite 386 - I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth : I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Seite 386 - Surely God is in thee ; and there is none else, there is no god. 15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
Seite 389 - Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves...
Seite 370 - Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou.
Seite 237 - Polydorus tells a story from the root of the myrtle, that the barbarous inhabitants of the country having pierced him with spears and arrows, the wood which was left in his body took root in his wounds, and gave birth to that bleeding tree.
Seite 100 - To ask then whether ridicule be a test of truth, is, in other words, to ask whether that which is ridiculous can be morally true, can be just and becoming; or whether that which is just and becoming can be ridiculous. A question that does not deserve a serious answer.
Seite 389 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Seite 193 - Each of the pagan gods had, besides the public and open, a secret worship paid unto him, to which none were admitted but those who had been selected by preparatory ceremonies, called initiation. This secret worship was termed the Mysteries.
Seite 110 - as very little short of mathematical certainty," and " to which nothing but a mere physical possibility of the contrary can be opposed;" and he declares his only difficulty to be in " telling whether the pleasure of the discovery or the wonder that it is now to make be the greater.