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... ancient deities had numerous votaries . The " wise of this world " still treated the Gospel with contempt and scorn . The hostility of the Jews was more bitter and unscrupulous than ever . And that large class of the community which ...
... ancient deities had numerous votaries . The " wise of this world " still treated the Gospel with contempt and scorn . The hostility of the Jews was more bitter and unscrupulous than ever . And that large class of the community which ...
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... ancient religion of the Egyptians , which he had been taught to despise as barbarous and obsolete , but of which he had been told the lovely Medora was a votary , and her brother an officiating priest . He knew little of the tenets of ...
... ancient religion of the Egyptians , which he had been taught to despise as barbarous and obsolete , but of which he had been told the lovely Medora was a votary , and her brother an officiating priest . He knew little of the tenets of ...
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... ancient and mysterious Nile ! So much did his own thoughts engross him , that Alypius was all unconscious of the few passengers whom he met by the way ; and he was only aroused from his sense of solitude by coming in contact with the ...
... ancient and mysterious Nile ! So much did his own thoughts engross him , that Alypius was all unconscious of the few passengers whom he met by the way ; and he was only aroused from his sense of solitude by coming in contact with the ...
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... ancient Egyptian maidens ; and such was still , on state occasions , the costume in which Sophis wished his daughter to appear . His wife also , although a Greek by birth - and from whom Medora had derived her fair complexion and sunny ...
... ancient Egyptian maidens ; and such was still , on state occasions , the costume in which Sophis wished his daughter to appear . His wife also , although a Greek by birth - and from whom Medora had derived her fair complexion and sunny ...
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... ancient paintings , that the ladies not unfrequently were guilty of excesses which we , in these days of greater refinement , can hardly credit . No such degrading scenes occurred in the house of Sophis . The stately Marcella took care ...
... ancient paintings , that the ladies not unfrequently were guilty of excesses which we , in these days of greater refinement , can hardly credit . No such degrading scenes occurred in the house of Sophis . The stately Marcella took care ...
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Page 122 - The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.
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