Memorials: And Other Papers, Bind 1Ticknor & Fields, 1856 |
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Side 242
... 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 .
Side 246
... 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 247
... Oracle . But , in the mean time , the humbler and more domestic offices of this oracle , though nat- urally making no noise at a distance , seem long to have survived its state relations . And , apart from the sort of galvanism ...
... Oracle . But , in the mean time , the humbler and more domestic offices of this oracle , though nat- urally making no noise at a distance , seem long to have survived its state relations . And , apart from the sort of galvanism ...
Side 251
... 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.
... 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 ...
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