 ... mysteries to obtain the end of their establishment, became the very means of defeating it. For we can assign no surer CAUSE of the horrid abuses and corruptions of the mysteries (besides time, which naturally and fatally depraves and vitiates all...  Essay on the Mysteries of Eleusis - Page 130de graf Sergeĭ Semenovich Uvarov - 1817 - 188 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Fellows - 1860 - 376 pages
...mysteries to obtain the end of their establishment became the very means of defeating it. For we can assign no surer cause of the horrid abuses and corruptions...opportunity to wicked men to attempt evil actions, and secrecy, encouragement to repeat them ; and the inviolable nature of that secrecy, which encouraged... | |
 | David Macdill, Jonathan Blanchard, Edward Beecher - 1867 - 108 pages
...performed. He says : " We can assign no surer cause of the horrid abuses and corruptions of the mysteries than the season in which they were represented, and the profound silence in which they were buried. Night gave opportunity to wicked men to attempt evil actions, and the secrecy encouragement to repeat... | |
 | John Patterson Lundy - 1876 - 540 pages
...truly says, that no surer cause of the horrid abuses and corruptions of the mysteries can be assigned than the season in which they were represented, and the profound silence in which they were buried. "Night gave opportunity to wicked men to attempt evil actions; and secrecy, encouragement to perpetrate... | |
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