 | David Hume - 1812 - 528 pages
...operate with irresistible force on the superstitious minds of the people. The nation was of a sudden deprived of all exterior exercise of its religion:...were laid on the ground; and, as if the air itself were profaned, and might pollute them by its contact, the priests carefully covered them up, even from... | |
 | Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - Great Britain - 1812 - 528 pages
...policy employed at that time by the court of Rome. By its execution, a whole nation was of a sudden deprived of all exterior exercise of its religion...altars were despoiled of their ornaments ; the crosses, relics, images, statues of the saints were laid on the ground and covered up ; the bells were removed... | |
 | Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - Great Britain - 1812 - 524 pages
...policy employed at that time by the court of Rome. By its execution, a whole nation was of a sudden deprived of all exterior exercise of its religion...altars were despoiled of their ornaments ; the crosses, relics, images, statues of the saints were laid on the ground and covered up ; the bells were removed... | |
 | John Britton - 1816 - 396 pages
...cease, except confession, the visitation of the sick, and infant baptism. " The nation was of a sudden deprived of all exterior exercise of its religion...were laid on the ground ; and, as if the air itself were profaned, and might pollute them by its contact, the priests carefully covered them up, even from... | |
 | William Cuninghame - Apostasy - 1818 - 334 pages
...public or in private, 1212.—The Roman Pontiff finding all these measures ineffectual for procuring the " saints were laid on the ground, and as if the air itself were " profaned and might pollute them by its contact, the priests " carefully covered them up, even... | |
 | James Sabine - Church history - 1820 - 656 pages
...of all exterior exereises of religion : the altars were despoiled of their ornaments ; the erosses, the reliques, the images, the statues of the saints,...were laid on the ground ; and as if the air itself was profaned, and inigLl pollute them by its eontaet, the priests enrefully eovered them up even from... | |
 | David Hume, John Robinson - Great Britain - 1824 - 568 pages
...sentence was calculated to strike with awe the minds of a superstitious people. The nation was of a sudden deprived of all exterior exercise of its religion...the altars were despoiled of their ornaments ; the dead were not interred in consecrated ground, but were thrown into ditches, or buried in common fields... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1825 - 494 pages
...operate with irresistible force on the superstitious minds of the people. The nation was of a sudden deprived of all exterior exercise of its religion...were despoiled of their ornaments; the crosses, the relics, the images, the statues of the saints, were laid on the ground; and, as if the air itself were... | |
 | David Hume, John Robinson - Great Britain - 1827 - 568 pages
...sentence was calculated to strike with awe the minds of a superstitious people. The nation was of a sudden deprived of all exterior exercise of its religion...the altars were despoiled of their ornaments ; the dead were not interred in consecrated ground, but were thrown into ditches, or buried in common fields... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 468 pages
...operate with irresistible force on the superstitious minds of the people. The nation was of a sudden deprived of all exterior exercise of its religion:...were laid on the ground ; and, as if the air itself were profaned, and might pollute them by its contact, the priests carefully covered them up, even from... | |
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... the images, the statues of the saints were laid on the ground ; and, as if the air itself were profaned, and might pollute them by its contact, the priests carefully covered them up, even from their own approach and veneration. The use of bells entirely... 
