An Exposition of the Mysteries; Or, Religious Dogmas and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Pythagoreans, and Druidsauthor, 1835 - 403 pages |
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... person could not be succoured , the offender was at least to be impeached , and penalties were decreed for any neglect of this kind . Thus the subjects were a guard and protection to one another ; and the whole body of the community ...
... person could not be succoured , the offender was at least to be impeached , and penalties were decreed for any neglect of this kind . Thus the subjects were a guard and protection to one another ; and the whole body of the community ...
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... person . And this I have done , because I had learned from my teachers , that the apostle St. Peter received from the Lord the great power of binding and loosing , with the keys of the kingdom of heaven . On this account I thought it ...
... person . And this I have done , because I had learned from my teachers , that the apostle St. Peter received from the Lord the great power of binding and loosing , with the keys of the kingdom of heaven . On this account I thought it ...
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... persons appointed for that purpose and maintained at the public expense , whose duty it was to study the revolutions and aspects of the heavenly bodies , and to com- municate the necessary information to the people . Such is the ...
... persons appointed for that purpose and maintained at the public expense , whose duty it was to study the revolutions and aspects of the heavenly bodies , and to com- municate the necessary information to the people . Such is the ...
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... persons , and put it in the hand of all beneficial deities . Mr. Gordon , Secretary of the Society for the encouragement of learning , has given us in the seventh plate of his collection , the amulets and preservatives which he has ...
... persons , and put it in the hand of all beneficial deities . Mr. Gordon , Secretary of the Society for the encouragement of learning , has given us in the seventh plate of his collection , the amulets and preservatives which he has ...
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... person , a man who had formerly lived among them , they made his history to relate to the attributes which attended the figure . So soon as Egypt was possessed with the ridiculous notion , that the statues of Osiris , Isis , and Horus ...
... person , a man who had formerly lived among them , they made his history to relate to the attributes which attended the figure . So soon as Egypt was possessed with the ridiculous notion , that the statues of Osiris , Isis , and Horus ...
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Page 341 - And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them : And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them : and they perished from among the congregation.
Page 41 - I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
Page 312 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; And be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors ; And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; Even lift them up, ye everlasting doors ; And the King of glory shall come in.
Page 331 - There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Page 314 - NOW when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.
Page 312 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor swom deceitfully.
Page 327 - Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
Page 208 - Enter ye in at the straight gate ; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because, straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Page 312 - The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Page 326 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.