An Inquiry Into the History of Opinion Concerning Death, and the Mental State Induced by Its ApproachC. Fox, 1838 - 59 páginas |
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... Greece record it as an unquestionable tradition , that the Egyptians were the first who taught the imperishable nature of the human spirit . But it is equally clear that the priests of On , and of the other religious schools which ...
... Greece record it as an unquestionable tradition , that the Egyptians were the first who taught the imperishable nature of the human spirit . But it is equally clear that the priests of On , and of the other religious schools which ...
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... Greece . The chief characteristic distinctions that we find in relation to death amongst oriental nations were , their notion of a Theocracy - of a Theocracy exercising its retribution in this world , by conferring temporal good or the ...
... Greece . The chief characteristic distinctions that we find in relation to death amongst oriental nations were , their notion of a Theocracy - of a Theocracy exercising its retribution in this world , by conferring temporal good or the ...
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... Greece was the focus into which all of good and grand that the earth had previously generated seemed destined to flow . Thither they came , the mythologies of earlier anti- quity , to be rendered more poetical and vital . Thither they ...
... Greece was the focus into which all of good and grand that the earth had previously generated seemed destined to flow . Thither they came , the mythologies of earlier anti- quity , to be rendered more poetical and vital . Thither they ...
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... Greece so glorious , and render it still " a watchword in the earth . ” And what thought they of death , and how did they meet it ? They did not fear death . As I have already said , I believe we can find no trace in their history of ...
... Greece so glorious , and render it still " a watchword in the earth . ” And what thought they of death , and how did they meet it ? They did not fear death . As I have already said , I believe we can find no trace in their history of ...
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... Greece than has ever been realized under any other form of government or condition of political existence - as every- thing concurred to make them love life , there was little in their notion of futurity to make that an object of desire ...
... Greece than has ever been realized under any other form of government or condition of political existence - as every- thing concurred to make them love life , there was little in their notion of futurity to make that an object of desire ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abode advert agonies Alcestis ancient Greece ancient Hebrews animal anticipation Anytus appre apprehension Art thou Athenians Athens beautiful book of Ecclesiastes book of Job character cherished Christian colour condemned connexion contemplation of death continually darkness dead destiny dignity Divine doctrine of immortality dogmas dying earth endeavour enjoyment eternal Euripides evil executioner exercise existence faculties faith fear feelings freedom of thought future gloom grave Greece Greeks Hades happiness heaven Hell Hittite hope human imagination individual infliction influence intellect Judea judges light live look martyrdom mental merely metempsychosis mighty mind modes mystery nature noble Roman lady notion object opinions patriarch perhaps philosophers physical Plato possession priests prospect of death Protestantism punishment realised record reference relation to death religion rendered seems sense slaves Socrates soul speculations spirit Stamford Street thee things thou thought tion torment traced truth unto vanity virtue vulgar WILLIAM CLOWES writer
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Página 13 - I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, " in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. "There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Página 13 - And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Página 57 - MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Página 43 - ... of the elements, to be a kind of nothing for a moment, to be within one instant of a spirit. When I take a full view and circle of myself, without this reasonable moderator and equal piece of justice, death, I do conceive myself the miserablest person extant.
Página 43 - For a pagan there may be some motives to be in love with life ; but for a Christian to be amazed at death, I see not how he can escape this dilemma, that he is too sensible of this life, or hopeless of the life to come.
Página 37 - Triptolemus, and the other demi-gods who were just in their lives? Or what would you not give to converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? I am willing to die many times, if this be true. And for my own part I should...
Página 57 - Groans and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him.
Página 58 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Página 44 - Where death waits for us is uncertain; let us look for him everywhere. The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die, has unlearned to serve. There is nothing of evil in life, for him who rightly comprehends that the privation of life is no evil: to know how to die, delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
Página 38 - And, if they are thought to be something, being really nothing, reproach them, as I have reproached you, for not attending to what they ought, and fancying themselves something when they are good for nothing. And, if you do this, both I and my sons shall have received what is just at your hands. "It is now time that we depart, I to die, you to live ; but which has the better destiny is unknown to all except the God.