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Pagina 11
... employed , as bugbears , to " strike a terror into the childish imaginations of " the Multitude * . " Lastly , Pliny the elder " owns it to be expedient " for society , that men should believe , that the " Gods concerned themselves in ...
... employed , as bugbears , to " strike a terror into the childish imaginations of " the Multitude * . " Lastly , Pliny the elder " owns it to be expedient " for society , that men should believe , that the " Gods concerned themselves in ...
Pagina 18
... employed all their studies to evince the importance of it , in general , to happiness ? The explanation of the riddle is easy : the GENIUS of their national religions , consisting rather in the performance of Rites of Worship than in ...
... employed all their studies to evince the importance of it , in general , to happiness ? The explanation of the riddle is easy : the GENIUS of their national religions , consisting rather in the performance of Rites of Worship than in ...
Pagina 25
... employed , the philosophers " have had recourse to this method , not out of an " idle or fantastic humour , or to please their au- " dience by an agreeable amusement ; but because 66 they know that a naked and open exposition of $ 6 ...
... employed , the philosophers " have had recourse to this method , not out of an " idle or fantastic humour , or to please their au- " dience by an agreeable amusement ; but because 66 they know that a naked and open exposition of $ 6 ...
Pagina 29
... employed it for that purpose ; however it might at length degenerate into craft and folly t First , then , it is confessed by the Greeks them- selves , that all their learning and wisdom came from Egypt ; fetched from thence either ...
... employed it for that purpose ; however it might at length degenerate into craft and folly t First , then , it is confessed by the Greeks them- selves , that all their learning and wisdom came from Egypt ; fetched from thence either ...
Pagina 32
... employed for their service . But what it was that facilitated its use , we shall see hereafter , when we come , in the fourth book , to speak of the Egyp- tian HIEROGLYPHICS . Secondly , We say , the Greeks , who borrowed this method of ...
... employed for their service . But what it was that facilitated its use , we shall see hereafter , when we come , in the fourth book , to speak of the Egyp- tian HIEROGLYPHICS . Secondly , We say , the Greeks , who borrowed this method of ...
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absurd amongst ancient Antiquity appears Arcesilaus argument Aristotle Atheism autem Author believe Book character Christian Cicero civil concerning conclude consequence Critias Divine Legation double doctrine Egyptian enim Epicurus eternal etiam Euhemerus exoteric fables false favour fear future Gods Greece Greek Greek Philosophy hæc hath human Idolatry immortality invented Lactantius Lawgivers learned legislative mankind matter ment Metempsychosis moral Moses Mysteries natural Religion nihil notion observed opinion Pagan passage passions Phædo Philosophers Plato Platonists Plutarch principles Providence Pythagoras quæ quam quid quidem quod reason rewards and punishments Sages says Sect sense Sextus Empiricus shew shewn Society Socrates sophism soul speaking Stoics Superstition suppose taught thing true truth words worship writings ἀλλὰ γὰρ δὲ διὰ ἐδὲ εἶναι εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἦν θεὸς θεῶν καὶ μὲν μὴ οἱ παρὰ περὶ τὰ τὰς τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Pagina 399 - THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN GRADUATE LIBRARY DATE DUE BOOK CARD DO NOT REMOVE A Charge will be...
Pagina 345 - In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity : every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Pagina 376 - God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have been esteemed useful engines of government.
Pagina 114 - Qui autem requirunt quid quaque de re ipsi sentiamus, curiosius id faciunt quam necesse est; non enim tarn auctoritatis in disputando quam rationis momenta quaerenda sunt. Quin etiam obest plerumque iis qui discere volunt auctoritas eorum qui se docere profitentur; desinunt enim suum iudicium adhibere, id habent ratum quod ab eo quern probant iudicatum vident.
Pagina 252 - Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain, These...
Pagina 313 - That the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments is not to be found in, nor did make part of, the Mosaic dispensation.
Pagina 254 - ... were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism, as the time of Augustus Caesar, were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many states; and bringeth in a new primum mobile, that ravisheth all the spheres of government.
Pagina 184 - Plutarch, was thejirst who held this opinion. 3. But though the Greeks were the inventors of this impious notion ; yet we may be assured, as they had their first learning from Egypt, it was the recognition of some Egyptian Principles which led them into it. Let us see then what those principles were. The Egyptians, as we are assured by the concurrent testimony of Antiquity, were amongst the first who taught that the soul survived the body and was immortal.
Pagina 198 - Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already ; and overthrow the faith of some.