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Ritschlianism is perhaps an exception: it did at least attempt a synthesis with science approached through Kantian philosophy. But was it successful? No one has seen this more clearly, or expressed it more vividly, than the late George Tyrrell, especially in his A Much Abused Letter and Christianity at the Cross-roads. Josephus, Antiq. xviii. 1. 1 and 6. See also Prolegomena to Acts, i. 421 ff.
Ethelbert, already well disposed towards the Christian faith, assigned him a habitation in the Isle of Thanet, and soon after admitted him to a conference. Polychron. lib. 5. Chron. I. cap. 2 Hunting. lib. 3. Brompton, p. 729 Parker Antiq. Brit. Chron. H. Hunting. lib. 3.
"And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul." Joseph. Antiq. lib. xx. c. 6, sect. 1, 2. "Agrippa gave his sister Drusilla in marriage to Azizus, king of the Emesenes, when he had consented to be circumcised.
Here are 25 groups of houses and certain individuals charged with making and keeping the churchyard bounds. Early History of Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey Arch. Coll., viii, 74. St. Mary the Great Acc'ts, 148. Hist. and Antiq. of Leicestershire, by John Nichols , i, Pt. ii, 569 ff.
But, as Mr. Ward, like others, neglects to bring any proof of his assertion, the question cannot fairly be decided by his authority. Orig. Edit. First printed in The Student, 1751. Vide Wood's Ath. Ox. Orig. Edit. Vide Wood's Ath. Ox. Orig. Edit. Vide Wood's Hist. Univ. Ox. Orig. Edit. Vide Wood's Hist. Antiq. Oxon. Orig. Edit.
Antiq. "There are many burying grounds in West Tennessee with regular graves. They dug them 12 or 18 inches deep, placed slabs at the bottom ends and sides, forming a kind of stone coffin, and, after laying in the body, covered it over with earth."
Canaan occupied Palestine, and the country called by his name: Mizraim, Egypt: but Phut passed deep into Africa, and, I believe, most of the nations in that part of the world are descended from him; at least more than from any other person." Antiq. L. 1. c. 7. Paschale, p. 29. "The sons of Phut settled in Mauritania, where was a country called Phutia, and a river of the like denomination.
HENGSTENBERG, p. 239, Robbins's trans. Josephus, Antiq. book iii. ch. 7. The ark, or sacred boat, of the Egyptians frequently occurs on the walls of the temples. It was carried in great pomp by the priests on the occasion of the "procession of the shrines," by means of staves passed through metal rings in its side. It was thus conducted into the temple, and deposited on a stand.
Antiq. lib xv. e. 7, sect. 8. "Twice every day, in the morning and at the ninth hour, the priests perform their, duty at the altar." "For Moses of old time hath, in every city, them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath-day." Joseph. contra Ap. 1. ii. "We have four men which have a vow on them; them take, and purify thyself with them that they may shave their heads."
I shall therefore allude to a few points which appear to me to show that the origin of the belief in fairies cannot be settled in so simple a manner as has been suggested, but is a question of much greater complexity one in which, as Mr. Tylor says, more than one mythic element combines to make up the whole. Roy. Soc. Antiq.
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