Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 13
... freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in con- - vulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break HISTORY . 13.
... freedom of action , and never transgressing the ideal serenity ; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods , and , though in con- - vulsive pain or mortal combat , never daring to break HISTORY . 13.
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... all those whom the soil , or the advantages of a market , had induced to build towns . Agriculture , therefore , was a religious injunction , because of the perils of the state from nomadism . And in these late and HISTORY . 19.
... all those whom the soil , or the advantages of a market , had induced to build towns . Agriculture , therefore , was a religious injunction , because of the perils of the state from nomadism . And in these late and HISTORY . 19.
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... religious pilgrimage was enjoined , or stringent laws and customs , tending to invigorate the national bond , were the check on the old rovers ; and the cumula- tive values of long residence are the restraints on the itineracy of the ...
... religious pilgrimage was enjoined , or stringent laws and customs , tending to invigorate the national bond , were the check on the old rovers ; and the cumula- tive values of long residence are the restraints on the itineracy of the ...
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... religion with some closeness to the faith of lat- er ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythol- ogy . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily ...
... religion with some closeness to the faith of lat- er ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythol- ogy . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily ...
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... religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no con- cernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word , because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our ...
... religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no con- cernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word , because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our ...
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