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" The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed, in peace, their local and respective influence ; nor could the Roman who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber deride the Egyptian who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the... "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 47
by Edward Gibbon - 1813
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 54

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1776 - 608 pages
...their local and refpective influence ; nor could the Roman who deprecated t'he wrath of the Tyber, deride the Egyptian who prefented his offering to...invifible governors of the moral world were inevitably traft in a fin.ilar mould of fiction and allegory. Every virtue, and even vice, acquired its divine...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 41

Tobias Smollett - 1776 - 526 pages
...peace, their local and refpeftive influence ; nor could the Roman who deprecated the wrath of the Tyber, deride the Egyptian who prefented his offering to...invifible governors of the moral world were inevitably cad in a fimilar mould of fiction and allegory. Every virtue, and even vice, acquired its divine rep.efentative;...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 54

1776 - 612 pages
...their local and refpt<£tive influence ; nor could the Roman who deprecated t*he wrath of the Tyber, deride the Egyptian who prefented his offering to...planets, and the elements, were the fame throughout the univerfc. * The invifible tovernors of the moral world were inevitably tail in a fimilar mould of fi£Hon...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 8; Volume 26

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1817 - 738 pages
...deitiee of a thousand groves and a thousand streams, possessed, in peace, their local and respective influence. Nor could the Roman, who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber, deride the Egyptian, who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile. The visible powers of nature, the planets...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 24

1825 - 600 pages
...deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams, possessed in peace their local and respective influence. Nor could the Roman, who deprecated ' the wrath of the Tiber, deride the Egyptian, who presented his ' offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile.' We are indeed filled with horror at...
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The Christian Advocate, Volume 3

1825 - 594 pages
...deities of a thousand groves and a thou-iiinl streams, possessed in peace their local and respective influence. Nor could the Roman, who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber, deride the Egyptian, who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile." We are indeed filled with horror at the...
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The Evidences of Christianity in Their External Or Historical Division ...

Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 536 pages
...The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed in peace their local and respective influence ; nor could the Roman who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber, deride the Egyptian who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile. Every virtue and even vice acquired its...
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The Evidences of Christianity in Their External Or Historical Division ...

Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed in peace their local and respective influence ; nor could the Roman who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber, deride the Egyptian who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile. Every virtue and even vice acquired its...
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The Evidences of Christianity in Their External Or Historical Division ...

Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...Tho deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed in peace their local and respective influence ; nor could the Roman who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber, deride the Egyptian who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile. Every virtue and even vice acquired its...
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The evidence and authority of divine revelation

Robert Haldane - 1834 - 526 pages
...del ties of a thousand groves and a thousand streams, possessed in peace their local and respective influence. Nor could the Roman, who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber, deride the Egyptian, who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile. The visible powers of nature, the planets...
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