The Childhood of the English Nation; Or, The Beginnings of English HistoryG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1877 - 247 páginas |
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... ages . To enable a modern reader of no great cultivation to do this , it seemed to me that some book was wanted which should be more diffuse in explanation than historians in general can find time to be ; and in order to excite interest ...
... ages . To enable a modern reader of no great cultivation to do this , it seemed to me that some book was wanted which should be more diffuse in explanation than historians in general can find time to be ; and in order to excite interest ...
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... ages , is not an institution which was working silently in the back- ground while events were going on independently ; she was the central figure in the drama - the power most active in moulding events . Being not only the medium ...
... ages , is not an institution which was working silently in the back- ground while events were going on independently ; she was the central figure in the drama - the power most active in moulding events . Being not only the medium ...
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... age went to Niflheim , a land of ice and fogs . The gods would listen to the prayers of men ; they would give victory and success and the power of song to those who asked it of them ; but they were not all - powerful ; the power of evil ...
... age went to Niflheim , a land of ice and fogs . The gods would listen to the prayers of men ; they would give victory and success and the power of song to those who asked it of them ; but they were not all - powerful ; the power of evil ...
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... age . Asceticism , or the sacrifice of the body , was an easier way , a way which all could understand . So the ascetic life soon became the model followed by the Christian Church . An eternal warfare between the body and the soul ...
... age . Asceticism , or the sacrifice of the body , was an easier way , a way which all could understand . So the ascetic life soon became the model followed by the Christian Church . An eternal warfare between the body and the soul ...
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... ages of Christianity do not now dare to raise their heads openly . Moreover , asceticism , though to us it seems a coarse caricature of true Christian self - sacrifice , undoubtedly presented self - sacrifice in a form which the world ...
... ages of Christianity do not now dare to raise their heads openly . Moreover , asceticism , though to us it seems a coarse caricature of true Christian self - sacrifice , undoubtedly presented self - sacrifice in a form which the world ...
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