Author: Anthony BlackwallPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated; Or, An Essay ... Proving the Purity, Propriety, and True Eloquence of the Writers of the New Testament
Author: Anthony BlackwallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated
Author: Anthony BlackwallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
On the Sacred Disease
Author: HippocratesPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465528040
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
It is thus with regard to the disease called Sacred: it appears to me to be nowise more divine nor more sacred than other diseases, but has a natural cause from the originates like other affections. Men regard its nature and cause as divine from ignorance and wonder, because it is not at all like to other diseases. And this notion of its divinity is kept up by their inability to comprehend it, and the simplicity of the mode by which it is cured, for men are freed from it by purifications and incantations. But if it is reckoned divine because it is wonderful, instead of one there are many diseases which would be sacred; for, as I will show, there are others no less wonderful and prodigious, which nobody imagines to be sacred. The quotidian, tertian, and quartan fevers, seem to me no less sacred and divine in their origin than this disease, although they are not reckoned so wonderful. And I see men become mad and demented from no manifest cause, and at the same time doing many things out of place; and I have known many persons in sleep groaning and crying out, some in a state of suffocation, some jumping up and fleeing out of doors, and deprived of their reason until they awaken, and afterward becoming well and rational as before, although they be pale and weak; and this will happen not once but frequently. And there are many and various things of the like kind, which it would be tedious to state particularly. They who first referred this malady to the gods appear to me to have been just such persons as the conjurors, purificators, mountebanks, and charlatans now are, who give themselves out for being excessively religious, and as knowing more than other people. Such persons, then, using the divinity as a pretext and screen of their own inability to of their own inability to afford any assistance, have given out that the disease is sacred, adding suitable reasons for this opinion, they have instituted a mode of treatment which is safe for themselves, namely, by applying purifications and incantations, and enforcing abstinence from baths and many articles of food which are unwholesome to men in diseases. Of sea substances, the surmullet, the blacktail, the mullet, and the eel; for these are the fishes most to be guarded against. And of fleshes, those of the goat, the stag, the sow, and the dog: for these are the kinds of flesh which are aptest to disorder the bowels. Of fowls, the cock, the turtle, and the bustard, and such others as are reckoned to be particularly strong. And of potherbs, mint, garlic, and onions; for what is acrid does not agree with a weak person. And they forbid to have a black robe, because black is expressive of death; and to sleep on a goat’s skin, or to wear it, and to put one foot upon another, or one hand upon another; for all these things are held to be hindrances to the cure. All these they enjoin with reference to its divinity, as if possessed of more knowledge, and announcing beforehand other causes so that if the person should recover, theirs would be the honor and credit; and if he should die, they would have a certain defense, as if the gods, and not they, were to blame, seeing they had administered nothing either to eat or drink as medicines, nor had overheated him with baths, so as to prove the cause of what had happened. But I am of opinion that (if this were true) none of the Libyans, who live in the interior, would be free from this disease, since they all sleep on goats’ skins, and live upon goats’ flesh; neither have they couch, robe, nor shoe that is not made of goat’s skin, for they have no other herds but goats and oxen. But if these things, when administered in food, aggravate the disease, and if it be cured by abstinence from them, godhead is not the cause at all; nor will purifications be of any avail, but it is the food which is beneficial and prejudicial, and the influence of the divinity vanishes.
The Sacred Band
Author: James RommPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501198017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The thrilling look into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes--and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band.
The Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity
Author: Richard CATTERMOLEThe Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated, Or, An Essay Humbly Offer'd Towards Proving the Purity, Propriety, and True Eloquence of the Writers of the New Testament
Author: Anthony BlackwallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Classical Cats
Author: Donald W. EngelsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134692862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This is the definitive book on classical cats. The cat has played a significant role in history from the earliest times. Well known is its role in the religion and art of ancient Egypt, no less than its association with witchcraft in the Middle Ages. But when did the cat become a domestic companion and worker as well? There has been much debate about the position of the cat in ancient Greece and Rome. Artistic representations are sometimes ambiguous, and its role as a mouse-catcher seems often to have been carried out by weasels. Yet other evidence clearly suggests that the cat was as important to Greeks and Romans as it is to many modern people. This book is the first comprehensive survey of the evidence for cats in Greece and Rome, and of their functions and representations in art. Donald Engels draws on authors from Aesop to Aristotle; on vase-painting, inscriptions and the plastic arts; and on a thorough knowledge of zoology of the cat. He also sets the ancient evidence in the wider context of the Egyptian period that preceded it, as well as the views of the Church fathers who ushered antiquity into the Middle Ages.
Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek World
Author: John PedleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521809351
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Covering important themes and issues which are linked to historic and specific sanctuaries, this book will provide students with an accessible yet authoritative introduction to ancient Greek sanctuaries.
Sacred Classics for Solo Piano
Author: John PurifoyPublisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9781495010439
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
(Piano Solo Songbook). 10 timeless songs of faith, masterfully arranged by John Purifoy. Perfect for church services or personal enjoyment. Titles: Because He Lives * Easter Song * Glorify Thy Name * Here Am I, Send Me * I'd Rather Have Jesus * Majesty * On Eagle's Wings * There's Something About That Name * We Shall Behold Him * Worthy Is the Lamb.
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