 | Conyers Middleton - 1755 - 496 pągines
...temples of the Heathens, and in the Romilh church, v. 103. Introduced into the Chriftian church about the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century, v. 179. PLATINA afcribes the inflitution of holy water to pope Alexander the firft, V. 97. His affertion... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1793 - 460 pągines
...ac5ts of chriftian faints*. The cuftom of having pictures in churches being once begun (which was about the end of the fourth or the beginning of the fifth century, and generally by converts from paganifm) the more wealthy among the chriftians feem to have vied with... | |
 | John Shepherd - 1801 - 466 pągines
...the four feafons wer? inftituted at Rome, about JSeafon of Advent, its Origin and Inftitution. .23 the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century ; and LEO who wrote about AD 450, when they were fully eftablifhed, afiigns feverat reafons for the... | |
 | 1905 - 726 pągines
...and the insertion of a cross within its circumference is first noticed in SS. Peter and Marcellinus at the end of the fourth or the beginning of the fifth century. The Virgin receives the nimbus later still, and it is not until the end of the fifth century that it... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 530 pągines
...death, by Peter. That most of these constitutions, as we now have them, were not compiled sooner than the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth, century, bishop Pearson* and Dr. Grabef have put beyond A doubt. That the order about the observance of easterj... | |
 | George Campbell - 1811 - 526 pągines
...scruple to recur to it for aid, in explaining the Scriptures. The version, thus quietly introduced about the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth, century, and left to its fate, to be used by those who liked it, and neglected by those who disliked it, advanced... | |
 | 1811 - 528 pągines
...scruple to recur to it for aid, in explaining the Scriptures. The version, thus quietly introduced about the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth, century, and left to its fate, to be used by those who liked it, and neglected by those who disliked it, advanced... | |
 | John Anderson - 1820 - 484 pągines
...of the Apostles, was current in the christian world without the clause, communion of saints, until the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century. It was then inserted, in order to maintain the principle of the union and communion of the Catholic... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1821 - 460 pągines
...composition those passages of the New Testament whieh affect our inquiry, upon other pniicipioi! an(] with other views than what might be presumed to actuate...episodes as to include a chaos of heathen fables, prodigal in mythological learning, and with much extravagance exhibiting marks of genius ; and a Paraphrase... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1821 - 456 pągines
...however, we had a writer who was merely a man of letters, and who had transfused >"*" any Vinrl nf explicatory composition those passages of the New...known of the life or character of Nonnus. Two poems of hia are extant ; the Dionysiaca, a long epic composition on the life and actions of Bacchus, but so... | |
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And we shall not be far wrong, if we determine its date as about the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century before Christ. 3. In the critical work on the Four Books, called ' Record of Remarks in the village of Yung1,' it is observed,... 
