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" The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed, in peace, their local and respective influence; nor could the Roman who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber, deride the Egyptian who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the... "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 41
by Edward Gibbon - 1852
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 24

1825 - 600 pages
...earth. The thin textur* of Pagan mythology was interwoven with various, but not discordant materials. The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams,...' offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile.' We are indeed filled with horror at the thought, that so total a dereliction of religious principle...
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The Christian Advocate, Volume 3

Presbyterian Church in the U.S. - 1825 - 594 pages
...interwoven with various, but not discordant materials. The deities of a thousand groves and a thou-iiinl streams, possessed in peace their local and respective...his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile." We are indeed filled with horror at the thought, that so total a dereliction of religious principle...
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The Evidences of Christianity in Their External Or Historical Division ...

Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...the mistress of the world, all nations to collect from and all forms of paganism to countenance. " The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams...his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile. Every virtue and even vice acquired its divine representative, every art and profession its patron,...
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The Evidences of Christianity in Their External Or Historical Division ...

Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...the mistress of the world, all nations to collect from and all forms of paganism to countenance. " The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams...his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile. Every virtue and even vice acquired its divine representative, every art and profession its patron,...
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The Evidences of Christianity in Their External Or Historical Division ...

Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...mistress of the world,, all nations to collect from and all forms of paganism to countenance. " Tho deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams...his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile. Every virtue and even vice acquired its divine representative, every art and profession its patron,...
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The Evidences of Christianity, in Their External Division: Exhibited in a ...

Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1833 - 450 pages
...the mistress of the world, all nations to collect from, and all forms of paganism to countenance. " The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams...deride the Egyptian who presented his offering to the benefi* Rom. i. 29—32. t Rom. i. 22, 23. cent genius of the Nile. Every virtue and even vice acquired...
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The Evidences of Christianity in Their External Or Historical Division ...

Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1852 - 470 pages
...the mistress of the world, a 1 nations to collect from, and all forms of paganism to countenance. " The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams...of the Tiber, deride the Egyptian who presented his oifering to the beneficent genius of the Nile. Every virtue and even vice acquired its divine representative...
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Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations: Demonstrating the ...

Robert Hare - Bible and spiritualism - 1855 - 556 pages
...country, were ex.alted to a state of power and immortality, it was universally confessed that .they deserved, if not the adoration, at least the reverence,...thousand streams possessed, in peace, their local and respected influence; nor could the Roman, who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber, deride the Egyptian...
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Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations: Demonstrating the ...

Robert Hare - Spiritualism - 1855 - 484 pages
...country, were ex.alted to a state of power and immortality, it was universally confessed that vthey deserved, if not the adoration, at least the reverence,...thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed, in vpeace, their local and respected influence; nor could the Roman, who cleiprecated the wrath of the...
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On the Harrogate spas, and change of air

George West Royston Pigott - 1856 - 308 pages
...devout polytheist to multiply the articles of his belief and to enlarge the list of his protectors. The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams...offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile. The Greek, the Raifian, and the Barbarian, as they met before their respective altars, easily persuaded...
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