The History and Conquests of the Saracens. Six Lectures Delivered Before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution |
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... faith . As the Persian Empire was inseparably con- nected with fire - worship , so the Roman seemed no less bound up with Christianity . With the Persian his religion and his nationality were iden- tical ; the same revolution had ...
... faith . As the Persian Empire was inseparably con- nected with fire - worship , so the Roman seemed no less bound up with Christianity . With the Persian his religion and his nationality were iden- tical ; the same revolution had ...
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... faith ; all accepted the same Græco - Roman civilization ; all spoke either the Greek or the Latin language , or some modification of one of them . Such was the prima facie aspect of the whole Empire ; and from the Atlantic to Mount ...
... faith ; all accepted the same Græco - Roman civilization ; all spoke either the Greek or the Latin language , or some modification of one of them . Such was the prima facie aspect of the whole Empire ; and from the Atlantic to Mount ...
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... faith of the national churches of Syria and Egypt . Anathematized by Catholic Councils , persecuted by Catholic Emperors , the inhabitants of those provinces became as lax in their civil as in their spiritual allegiance . Heresy became ...
... faith of the national churches of Syria and Egypt . Anathematized by Catholic Councils , persecuted by Catholic Emperors , the inhabitants of those provinces became as lax in their civil as in their spiritual allegiance . Heresy became ...
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... faith . But the Roman Empire , hardly less despotic in practice than the Persian , was still emphatically the Empire of Law . The Imperial power , which had gradually grown up from Augustus to Diocletian , still retained something of ...
... faith . But the Roman Empire , hardly less despotic in practice than the Persian , was still emphatically the Empire of Law . The Imperial power , which had gradually grown up from Augustus to Diocletian , still retained something of ...
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... faith soever it was first dedicated , there is no doubt that he found it the great centre of worship and place of pilgrimage for the idolaters of Arabia . There they came to worship and to sacrifice to the 360 graven and molten images ...
... faith soever it was first dedicated , there is no doubt that he found it the great centre of worship and place of pilgrimage for the idolaters of Arabia . There they came to worship and to sacrifice to the 360 graven and molten images ...
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