| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1852 - 678 pages
...of Elysium and Tarlarus; aud their chief design was, by sensible means, to spread among the people a conviction of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. To reveal the secrets of tho Kleusinian mysteries was looked upon as a crime... | |
| GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...Elysium and Tartarus ; and their chief design was, by sensible means, to spread among the people a conviction of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. To reveal the secrets of the Eleusinian mysteries was looked upon as a crime... | |
| Talbot Watts - Japan - 1852 - 222 pages
...difficulty in procuring other lodgings, they may be accommodated in them. They have some confused notions of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. According to their tradition, the souls of the virtuous have a place assigned... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Church history - 1853 - 576 pages
...liberally allowed by the gods to those who regularly ministered to them in this way.(") The doctrine of the immortality of the soul and of a future state of rewards and punishments, had also been but very partially diffused, and even what had been advanced... | |
| 1854 - 532 pages
...Greece. Ages before the rise of Athenian genius and the spread of Roman civilization, the great doctrines of the immortality of the soul and of a future state of rewards and punishments were acknowledged and diffused by the swarthy sages of the Nile, and the Sacerdotal... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Church history - 1854 - 592 pages
...liberally allowed by the gods to those who regularly ministered to them in this way.(') The doctrine of the immortality of the soul and of a future state of rewards and punishments, had also been but very partially diffused, and even what had been advanced... | |
| Joseph Benson - 1854 - 864 pages
...his brethren into the same destructive courses. That he may testify unto them— The certain truth ǔ! op tWm$B 5 i bۉ r ɚb Ȥ ڶ B^ <d Z ) rewards and punishments, and the infinite importance thereof; lest they also come into this place of... | |
| Henry Howe - Adventure and adventurers - 1854 - 740 pages
...the learned priests of Heliopolis, Plato, who studied here, is-believed to have derived the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. One afternoon, our traveler, with some companions, set forth from Cairo to... | |
| Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1855 - 608 pages
...spiritual Emperor, who is thought to be a lineal descendant of the gods. They have some vague notions of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. Buddhism, the most widely diffused religion of India, is supposed to have... | |
| 1856 - 654 pages
...spiritual emperor, who is thought to be the lineal descendant of the gods. They have some vague notions of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of reward« und punishments. Buddhism, the most widcly-diffiised religion of India, is supjHiscd to have... | |
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