Memorials: And Other Papers, Bind 1J.R. Osgood, 1874 |
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... diffusive social benefits from the Oracle machinery , which must arrest the atten- tion of candid students , amidst some opposite monu - ments of incorrigible credulity , or of elaborate impos- ture 242 THE PAGAN ORACLES .
... diffusive social benefits from the Oracle machinery , which must arrest the atten- tion of candid students , amidst some opposite monu - ments of incorrigible credulity , or of elaborate impos- ture 242 THE PAGAN ORACLES .
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... Oracle it- self of all oracles the most illustrious - had not expired , but simply slumbered for centuries , the ... Oracle superannuated or palsied . On the contrary , he found it but too clear - sighted ; and it was no contempt in him ...
... Oracle it- self of all oracles the most illustrious - had not expired , but simply slumbered for centuries , the ... Oracle superannuated or palsied . On the contrary , he found it but too clear - sighted ; and it was no contempt in him ...
Side 251
... , when insisting ( as many times he does insist ) , forty and even fifty years before the birth of Christ , on the languishing condition of the Delphic Oracle ? What evasion could they imagine here ? How could that THE PAGAN ORACLES . 251.
... , when insisting ( as many times he does insist ) , forty and even fifty years before the birth of Christ , on the languishing condition of the Delphic Oracle ? What evasion could they imagine here ? How could that THE PAGAN ORACLES . 251.
Side 252
... Oracle upwards of four centuries after Christ— that is suffi- cient . But if with this fact we combine the other fact , that all the principal Oracles had already be- gun to languish , more than two centuries before Christianity , there ...
... Oracle upwards of four centuries after Christ— that is suffi- cient . But if with this fact we combine the other fact , that all the principal Oracles had already be- gun to languish , more than two centuries before Christianity , there ...
Side 254
... oracle ; and , in fact , to their gross appreciations , Christian truth was like the scavenger bird in Eastern climates , or the stork in Holland , which signalizes its presence by devour- ing all the native brood of vermin , or ...
... oracle ; and , in fact , to their gross appreciations , Christian truth was like the scavenger bird in Eastern climates , or the stork in Holland , which signalizes its presence by devour- ing all the native brood of vermin , or ...
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