 ... a variety of causes. A ridiculous precipitation in receiving new opinions, a preposterous desire of imitating the pagan rites, and of blending them with the Christian worship, and that idle propensity which the generality of mankind have toward a...  The Sketch of the Romish Controversy - Strana 78podľa George Finch - 1850Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1868 - Počet stránok 500
...idle propensity which the generality of mankind have towards a gaudy and ostentatious religion, all contributed to establish the reign of superstition upon the ruins of Christianity. * * The virtues that had formerly been ascribed to the heathen temples, to their lustrations, to the... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1870 - Počet stránok 542
...idle propensity, wlnch the generality of mankind have inwards a gaudy and ostentatious religion, all contributed to establish the reign of superstition upon the ruins of Christianity. The pub' lie processions and supplications, by which the Pagans endeavoured to appease their gods,... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1871 - Počet stránok 486
...the natural predilection of mankind in general for a splendid and ostentatious religion. At first, frequent pilgrimages were undertaken to Palestine, and to the tombs of the martyrs ; as if, thence men could bear away the radical principles nf holiness, and certain hopes of salvation. (1)... | |
 | John Dowling - 1871 - Počet stránok 962
...idle propensity which the generality of man• kind have toward a gaudy and ostentatious religion, all contributed to establish the reign of superstition...upon the ruins of Christianity. Accordingly, frequent pilgrimage^ were undertaken to Palestine, and to the tombs of the martyrs, as if there alone the sacred... | |
 | 1852 - Počet stránok 826
...enormous train of different superstitions was gradually substituted in the place of true religion ; frequent pilgrimages were undertaken to Palestine...the certain hope of salvation were to be acquired. Quantities of dust and earth, brought from Palestine and other places remarkable for their supposed... | |
 | Uriah Smith - 1884 - Počet stránok 902
...idle propensity which the generality of mankind have toward a gaudy and ostentatious religion, all contributed to establish the reign of superstition...of virtue and the certain hope of salvation were to Toe acquired. The reins being once let loose to superstition, which knows no bounds, absur»l notions... | |
 | Ellet Joseph Waggoner - 1888 - Počet stránok 404
...the natural predilection of mankind in general for a splendid and ostentatious religion. At first, frequent pilgrimages were undertaken to Palestine, and to the tombs of the martyrs; as if, thence men could bear away the radical principles of holiness, and certain hopes of salvation. Next,... | |
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