 Petronius tell us, created the gods of this religion. These deities are mysterious and capricious powers, who exact vengeance for the transgression of arbitrary laws which they have not revealed, and who must be propitiated by public sacrifice, lest some...  The Quarterly Review - Page 30edited by - 1918Full view - About this book
 | 1870 - 574 pages
...' Times,' ' Standard,' and ' Daily News ' Newspapers. July to October, 1870. A GREAT poet has said that the history of the world is the judgment of the world ; and in such a judgment the public opinion of Europe has been taking part for the last three months in the... | |
 | Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg - 1871 - 600 pages
...particular rests only on the universal. Even the heathen have much to say of Nemesis. Schiller says, " The history of the world is the judgment of the world." And our Saviour says, " Where the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together." The peculiarity... | |
 | 1871 - 632 pages
...JUDGMENT." — A late number of the Quarterly Review begins with the statement that " a great poet has said that the history of the world is the judgment of the world." What great poet ? D. BLAIR. Melbourne. ÎUpItru. GERMAN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARIES. (4th S. vii. 303,... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick, Robert Harrison - 1873 - 618 pages
...laborious research ; but advocate civil and religious freedom, and have a tendency to support the doctrine, that 'the History of the World is the Judgment of the World.' The poet could hardly have chosen a more difficult historical subject than the Thirty Years' War. After... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick, Robert Harrison - 1873 - 620 pages
...laborious research ; but advocate civil and religious freedom, and have a tendency to support the doctrine, that ' the History of the World is the Judgment of the World.' The poet could hardly have chosen a more difficult historical subject than the Thirty Years' War. After... | |
 | Karl Rudolph Hagenbach - 1880 - 488 pages
...mean here. The individual stands more or less under the influence of his time. It is indeed truly said that the history of the world is the judgment of the world. But what mortal ventures to accomplish it ? To the judgment of the world belongs also, on the ground... | |
 | 1883 - 666 pages
...this world in every man's life. A great German thinker said, in reference to the history of nations, that the history of the World is the judgment of the World, and although that is not true if it is a denial of the final act of judgment, it is true with regard to... | |
 | 1885 - 930 pages
...punish. As for your Why, it is the idlest of questions. What is clear to me, as it was to Schiller, is that the history of the world is the judgment of the world. Before nations, as before individuals, are set life and death, blessing and cursing. Their well-being... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1886 - 328 pages
...punish. As for your Why, it is the idlest of questions. What is clear to me, as it was to Schiller, is that the history of the world is the judgment of the world. Before nations, as before individuals, are set life and death, blessing and cursing. Their well-being... | |
 | 1888 - 400 pages
...follies. We shall see the hand of the Son of Man, the world's King and Judge, in them all. We shall see that " the history of the world is the judgment of the world." And we shall learn that His " coming to judgment" is but the open and signal manifestation of an administration... | |
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