Ecclesiastical Institutions: Being Part VI of the Principles of SociologyWilliams and Norgate, 1885 - 853 pages |
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Ecclesiastical Institutions: Being Part VI of the Principles ..., Pages 672-853 Herbert Spencer No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 688 - They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
Page 736 - And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 12. And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: 13.
Page 689 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Page 690 - And the LORD was with Judah ; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain ; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
Page 749 - These councils, of which we find not the smallest trace before the middle of the second century, changed the whole face of the church, and gave it a new form ; for by them the ancient privileges of the people were considerably diminished, and the power and authority of the bishops greatly augmented.
Page 648 - FORMER PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE " Preference being given to works in the Intellectual and Moral Sciences.
Page 772 - And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them ; 4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
Page 769 - Woe unto us ! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.
Page 736 - But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth : but thou shalt utterly destroy them...
Page 685 - The saying that one half the world does not know how the other half lives...