 | Edward Gibbon - 1764 - 188 páginas
...thefe moral deities afljgned their feveral departments, than, it is natural to conceive, they engrofied the homage of mankind. They had to do immediately...divinities, to whom no moral attributes had been given, fell infenfibly into contempt and oblivion. Thus, it is only in the earlieft ages of antiquity that... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 464 páginas
...these moral deities assigned their several departments, than, it is natural to conceive, they engrossed the homage of mankind. They had to do immediately with the heart and the passions, whereas the physical divinities, to whom no moral attributes had been given, fell insensibly... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - 1972 - 598 páginas
...these moral deities assigned their several departments, than, it is natural to conceive, they engrossed the homage of mankind. They had to do immediately with the heart and the passions, whereas the physical divinities, to whom no moral attributes had been given, fell insensibly... | |
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... planet Venus be the mother and goddess of love? Why must she take her rise out of the foam of the ocean? But we must leave these enigmas to such as may be able to interpret them. No sooner were these moral deities assigned their several departments,... 