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... religious community of women . She has the same authority as an abbot , but cannot exercise any of the spiritual functions . AB'BEY , a religious house governed by a superior , under the title of an abbot or abbess . The abbeys of ...
... religious community of women . She has the same authority as an abbot , but cannot exercise any of the spiritual functions . AB'BEY , a religious house governed by a superior , under the title of an abbot or abbess . The abbeys of ...
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... , and left it of marble . AUGUSTINES , a religious order , so called from St. Augustine , their founder , and vulgarly called Austin friars , or man of mature age , clothed and girt with a AUG ] 31 AND THE FINE ARTS .
... , and left it of marble . AUGUSTINES , a religious order , so called from St. Augustine , their founder , and vulgarly called Austin friars , or man of mature age , clothed and girt with a AUG ] 31 AND THE FINE ARTS .
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... religious of St. Genevieve , that abbey the many works which have since been being the chief of the order . produced in imitation of the latter , it may be said that the general defect is a morbid spirit of exaggeration . Of the more ...
... religious of St. Genevieve , that abbey the many works which have since been being the chief of the order . produced in imitation of the latter , it may be said that the general defect is a morbid spirit of exaggeration . Of the more ...
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... religion and religious science , in the same manner as , among the Jews , the priesthood was ordained to continue in the tribe of Levi . The fami- lies of this caste claim peculiar venera- tion from the rest , and seem , in their BOWLS ...
... religion and religious science , in the same manner as , among the Jews , the priesthood was ordained to continue in the tribe of Levi . The fami- lies of this caste claim peculiar venera- tion from the rest , and seem , in their BOWLS ...
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... religious orders adopt this color in their costume , as the symbol of renunciation . With the Moors it was emblematic of every evil . Tradition assigns red hair to Judas . Christian symbolism appro- priates the color of 46 [ BRO ...
... religious orders adopt this color in their costume , as the symbol of renunciation . With the Moors it was emblematic of every evil . Tradition assigns red hair to Judas . Christian symbolism appro- priates the color of 46 [ BRO ...
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Page 112 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 482 - It reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the spring-time of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, spreads our sympathies over all classes of society, knits us by new ties with universal being, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions helps faith to lay hold...
Page 191 - 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.
Page 482 - It is not true that the poet paints a life which does not exist. He only extracts and concentrates, as it were, life's ethereal essence, arrests and condenses its volatile fragrance, brings together its scattered beauties, and prolongs its more refined but evanescent joys ; and in this he does well ; for it is good to feel that life is not wholly usurped by cares for subsistence, and physical gratifications, but admits, in measures which may be indefinitely enlarged, sentiments and delights worthy...
Page 482 - ... of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good. Poetry has a natural alliance with our best affections.
Page 265 - GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it inquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.
Page 145 - And for the majesty that he gave him all people, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him; whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive, and whom he would he set up, and whom he would he put down.
Page 307 - I must here in the entrance beg pardon of my reader for the frequent use of the word "idea," which he will find in the following treatise. It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks: I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it.
Page 241 - ... beneficent suzerain, against such powerful aggression, as left little prospect except of sharing in his ruin. ' From these feelings, engendered by the feudal relation, has sprung up the peculiar sentiment of personal reverence and attachment towards a sovereign, which we denominate loyalty; alike distinguishable from the stupid devotion of eastern slaves, and from the abstract respect with which free citizens regard their chief magistrate.
Page 140 - DEMOCRACY, a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation.