Peri deisidaimonias. Plutarchus, and Theophrastus, on supersition; with [a tr.], various appendices, and a life of Plutarchus [by J. Hibbert1828 |
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Plutarchus Julian Hibbert. PREFACE . ABOUT the 5th . of March last year , I published a reprint of the text of Hermann's Orphica . In the preface to that " Typographical Experiment " I said ( p . vi & vii ) : " I am preparing an edition1 ...
Plutarchus Julian Hibbert. PREFACE . ABOUT the 5th . of March last year , I published a reprint of the text of Hermann's Orphica . In the preface to that " Typographical Experiment " I said ( p . vi & vii ) : " I am preparing an edition1 ...
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Plutarchus Julian Hibbert. PREFACE . -tice of the book . My vanity was at first much offended at this silence . Now , however , that I reflect upon the matter more calm- -ly , I am seriously persuaded , that the various daily ...
Plutarchus Julian Hibbert. PREFACE . -tice of the book . My vanity was at first much offended at this silence . Now , however , that I reflect upon the matter more calm- -ly , I am seriously persuaded , that the various daily ...
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Plutarchus Julian Hibbert. to the language of the Hebrews , that it is often difficult to distinguish their prose from their verse . But my philosophical friends would laugh at my spending time about ancient treatises , which have been ...
Plutarchus Julian Hibbert. to the language of the Hebrews , that it is often difficult to distinguish their prose from their verse . But my philosophical friends would laugh at my spending time about ancient treatises , which have been ...
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Plutarchus Julian Hibbert. If the reader wish for a graphical representation of Superstition , there are two engravings , in van Dale's " de Oraculis " ( p . 1 , & 308 ) , which seem to express almost every species of sacerdotal knavery ...
Plutarchus Julian Hibbert. If the reader wish for a graphical representation of Superstition , there are two engravings , in van Dale's " de Oraculis " ( p . 1 , & 308 ) , which seem to express almost every species of sacerdotal knavery ...
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Plutarchus Julian Hibbert. A LIFE OF PLUTARCHUS . THE two following Testimonia concerning Plutarchus are placed before his.
Plutarchus Julian Hibbert. A LIFE OF PLUTARCHUS . THE two following Testimonia concerning Plutarchus are placed before his.
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Page 39 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 43 - This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit coeternal with the universe, remains unshaken.
Page 10 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Page 40 - Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods ; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were rage, revenge, or lust ; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe.
Page 14 - Delectus Argumentorum et Syllabus Scriptorum, qui Veritatem Religionis Christianae adversus Atheos, Epicureos, Deistas seu Naturalistas, Idololatrias, Judaeos et Muhammedanos Lucubrationibus suis asseruerunt.
Page 8 - Reason and Religion ; or the grounds and measures of Devotion considered from the nature of God and the nature of man, in several contemplations. With exercises of devotion applied to every contemplation,
Page 40 - You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible or odious to the spectator! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind nature, impregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children!
Page 2 - The discouerie of witchcraft, Wherein the lewde dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected, the...
Page 13 - The Religious Philosopher, or, the right use of contemplating the Works of the Creator.
Page 16 - ... he from whom the universal world proceeds ; who is the Lord of the universe, and whose work is the universe ; he who is the light...