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Henry Thomas Buckle Helen Taylor. 14. ORIGIN OF THE CUSTOM AMONG CATHOLIC PRIESTS OF SHAVING THE HEAD . " All the Egyptian priests , as Herodotus informs us ( see See also Herod . lib . ii . 36 ) ... CUSTOM AMONG CATHOLIC PRIESTS OF SHAVING ...
Henry Thomas Buckle Helen Taylor. 14. ORIGIN OF THE CUSTOM AMONG CATHOLIC PRIESTS OF SHAVING THE HEAD . " All the Egyptian priests , as Herodotus informs us ( see See also Herod . lib . ii . 36 ) ... CUSTOM AMONG CATHOLIC PRIESTS OF SHAVING ...
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... customs 6 " Some parts of their character " [ the Huns ] " and several of their are not unlike those of the savages in ... custom exists among the Dahomans ( see Duncan's Travels in Western Africa , 8vo , 1847 , vol . i . pp . 233-261 ) ...
... customs 6 " Some parts of their character " [ the Huns ] " and several of their are not unlike those of the savages in ... custom exists among the Dahomans ( see Duncan's Travels in Western Africa , 8vo , 1847 , vol . i . pp . 233-261 ) ...
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... custom purely heathenish , and con- demning it as impious and detestable . Justin Martyr says ( Apol . i . p . 91 , edit . Theille ) : That it was invented by demons in imita- tion of the true baptism signified by the prophets , that ...
... custom purely heathenish , and con- demning it as impious and detestable . Justin Martyr says ( Apol . i . p . 91 , edit . Theille ) : That it was invented by demons in imita- tion of the true baptism signified by the prophets , that ...
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... custom of changing the name of the Roman Pontiff is said See also to have arisen from Sergius II . , in the year 844 , whose name was Os ARTS . 67 , Porci , or Hog's Snout , which he changed into Sergius , assigning as a reason that our ...
... custom of changing the name of the Roman Pontiff is said See also to have arisen from Sergius II . , in the year 844 , whose name was Os ARTS . 67 , Porci , or Hog's Snout , which he changed into Sergius , assigning as a reason that our ...
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... custom of trying the innocence of suspected persons by fire or boiling water is very ancient , for it is mentioned in the Antigone of Sophocles " ( Jortin , Remarks on Ecclesiastical His- tory , vol . i . p . 314 ) . Salverte has ...
... custom of trying the innocence of suspected persons by fire or boiling water is very ancient , for it is mentioned in the Antigone of Sophocles " ( Jortin , Remarks on Ecclesiastical His- tory , vol . i . p . 314 ) . Salverte has ...
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