Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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David Swing. The Submerged Centuries . The mass of submerged centuries lying in our Christian era is not definitely marked . No natural phenomenon comes with sharply defined borders . The earth- quake at New Madrid , which drew down ...
David Swing. The Submerged Centuries . The mass of submerged centuries lying in our Christian era is not definitely marked . No natural phenomenon comes with sharply defined borders . The earth- quake at New Madrid , which drew down ...
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... Christianity was too weak and too full of terrific days of perse- cution to admit of its floating the world . All the civilization of the past slowly settled , and by the fifth or sixth century the great historic races had become sub ...
... Christianity was too weak and too full of terrific days of perse- cution to admit of its floating the world . All the civilization of the past slowly settled , and by the fifth or sixth century the great historic races had become sub ...
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... Christianity came at the most opportune moment after the fall of Adam ; that the Roman flag and the Roman language ... Christ came just in time to find a Herod who would put to death all the babes in Bethlehem , so as to be sure of more ...
... Christianity came at the most opportune moment after the fall of Adam ; that the Roman flag and the Roman language ... Christ came just in time to find a Herod who would put to death all the babes in Bethlehem , so as to be sure of more ...
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David Swing. killing the right one ; Christ came just in time to need an escape into Egypt ; he came just in time to ... Christian era , arose a delightful exercise of logic and rhetoric for their own sake . The THE SUBMERGED CENTURIES . 7.
David Swing. killing the right one ; Christ came just in time to need an escape into Egypt ; he came just in time to ... Christian era , arose a delightful exercise of logic and rhetoric for their own sake . The THE SUBMERGED CENTURIES . 7.
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... Christ to be born in such an age was something of a misfortune , for the great thinkers took up the intricacies of ... Christian religion . The Asiatic pagans believed in starvation , daily washings , sacred water , and in passing the ...
... Christ to be born in such an age was something of a misfortune , for the great thinkers took up the intricacies of ... Christian religion . The Asiatic pagans believed in starvation , daily washings , sacred water , and in passing the ...
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