The Devil and All His WorksIn this book, Mr. Wheatley sums up a lifetime's reading and advances his own trenchant views on the conflict of Good and Evil, or Light and Darkness. He describes these elemental forces as being perpetually in conflict, first one predominating and then the other. |
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Page 161
... Roman legions marched from victory to victory until , under the Emperor Marcus Aurelius 325 years later , the boundaries of the Empire to the west and north were the Atlantic , the border of Scotland , the Rhine and the Danube ; to the ...
... Roman legions marched from victory to victory until , under the Emperor Marcus Aurelius 325 years later , the boundaries of the Empire to the west and north were the Atlantic , the border of Scotland , the Rhine and the Danube ; to the ...
Page 166
... Roman literature abounds in accounts of spells that were cast . An excellent and amusing example is The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius - a tale of a witch who turned a young man into a donkey . Such was the enormously active Roman world ...
... Roman literature abounds in accounts of spells that were cast . An excellent and amusing example is The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius - a tale of a witch who turned a young man into a donkey . Such was the enormously active Roman world ...
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... Roman architecture , 164 Roman Catholic Church , attacks heresy , 198-9 , 209 , 213-14 , 232 , 244-5 bigotry of , 221-2 , 243 - , in the Reformation , 219-20 ; see also Inquisition , witch hunts and trials Roman Catholic priests , 189 ...
... Roman architecture , 164 Roman Catholic Church , attacks heresy , 198-9 , 209 , 213-14 , 232 , 244-5 bigotry of , 221-2 , 243 - , in the Reformation , 219-20 ; see also Inquisition , witch hunts and trials Roman Catholic priests , 189 ...
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