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While they were yet one, of course Church and State were one: the king was arch-priest, not nominally, but really alike the giver of new commands and the chief interpreter of the old commands; and the deputy-priests coming out of his family were thus simply expounders of the dictates of their ancestry: at first as recollected, and afterwards as ascertained by professed interviews with them.

He could not, it appeared, find himself attracted to Teuton university expounders those gods of wisdom who had repulsed him. Whether it was his unfortunate luck or not, he was not able to summon a desire to go again. He had not forgotten his other experience.

Indeed, the word ujigami, now used to signify a Shinto parish temple, and also its deity, means 'family God, and in its present form is a corruption or contraction of uchi-no-Kami, meaning the 'god of the interior' or 'the god of the house. Shinto expounders have, it is true, attempted to interpret the term otherwise; and Hirata, as quoted by Mr.

Of course I've heard him expounded many times from the platform, but there must have been about fifty Marxes, for I've heard or read just about that many expounders of him and no two agree so's you'd notice it. That, to my mind, is the only stumbling block for socialism that we have a prophet who's so hard to understand. "So, I've settled on Spargo.

By what I have heard, I have inferred, that the Hollanders have drawn a just line between both. We used to have our stated, as well as occasional courts. Beside a bench of judges, we had our orators, and expounders of our laws.

The story of the philosophers, who mutinied against the iron clamps and governmentally nourished system of the Séido College expounders, is yet to be fully told. It behooves some Japanese scholar to tell it.

However untenable such an objection was esteemed to be, in view of the unquestionable power of the Executive to negotiate the treaty and the great and lasting interests involved in the question, I felt it to be my duty to submit the whole subject to Congress as the best expounders of popular sentiment.

Unfortunately, the schooner was too small to carry an armament to which such a fine crew could do full justice, the utmost that she would carry, with anything like safety, being six long expounders; and even with the weight of these on her deck she seemed to be just a trifle more tender than I altogether liked.

It is wonderful that emperors who persecuted and sages who spurned the religion of Jesus, should have been won over by a moral force superior to all the venerated influences of the old religion of which they were guardians and expounders. It is surprising that such relentless and bloody persecutions as took place for three hundred years should have been so futile.

Another sacred college of somewhat later date is that of the men, at first three in number, afterwards fifteen, who acted as expounders of the sacred Sibylline books, which King Tarquin purchased from the old woman or Sibyl, of Cumae. Roman Religion Legal rather than Priestly.