| 1765 - 600 páginas
...were full of aufterity, recommended a ftrift and rigorous abftinence, and prefcribed the moft fevere, bodily mortifications, from a notion that they had...influence in purifying and enlarging the mind, and in difponng it for the contemplation of cck-tVi.il things. As they looked upon it to be the unhappinefs... | |
| Hannah Adams - 1801 - 514 páginas
...were full of aufterity, recommending a ftrift and rigorous abflinence, and prefcribed the moffc fevere bodily mortifications, from a notion, that they had...influence in purifying and enlarging the mind, and in difpofmg it for the contemplation of cdeftial things. That fome of the Gnoftics, in confequence of... | |
| Hannah Adams - 1805 - 514 páginas
...greatest part of this denomination adopted rules of life which were full of austerity, recommending a strict and rigorous abstinence ; and prescribed...disposing it for the contemplation of celestial things. That some of the Gnostics, in consequence of making no account of the body, might think that there... | |
| Hannah Adams - 1817 - 390 páginas
...life, which were full of austerity, recommending a strict and rigorous abstinence ; and prescribing the most severe bodily mortifications, from a notion...disposing it for the contemplation of celestial things. The Egyptian Gnostics are distinguished from the Asiatic by rejecting the evil principle of the Persians... | |
| Hannah Adams - 1823 - 494 páginas
...greater part of this denomination adopted rules of life which were full of austerity, recommending a strict and rigorous abstinence ; and prescribed...disposing it for the contemplation of celestial things. The Egyptians differed from the Orientals, and especially the Persians, in some points as to the evil... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1824 - 538 páginas
...mor»i of two kinds, and those extremely different from -"«*"*• each other. The greatest part of this sect adopted rules of life that were full of...bodily mortifications, from a notion that they had a happyjnfluence in purifying and enlarging the mind, and in disposing it for the contemplation of celestial... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1824 - 544 páginas
...mortifications, from a notion that they had ! happy influence in purifying and enlarging the mind, an< in disposing it for the contemplation of celestial things As they looked upon it to be trie unhappiness of the soul to have been associated, at all, to a malignant, terrestrial body; so... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1826 - 442 páginas
...pracdoctnnes. ^.^ ^ag Qf ^wo j^u^ which were extremely different from each other. The greatest part of this sect adopted rules of life that were full of...most severe bodily mortifications, from a notion that these observances had a happy influence in purifying and enlarging the mind, and in disposing it for... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1842 - 750 páginas
...practice, was trine«. Of two kjn(}S) and those extremely different from each other. The greatest part of this sect adopted rules of life that were full of...contemplation of celestial things.. As they looked upon it to he the unhappiness of the soul to have been associated, at all, to a malignant terrestrial body ; so... | |
| D. Davidson - 1844 - 284 páginas
...and practice, was of two kinds, and those extremely different from each other. The greatest part of this sect adopted rules of life that were full of...soul to have been associated at all to a malignant, terrestial body, so they imagined that the more that body was extenuated, the less it would corrupt... | |
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