 the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology and its attendant rites, grounded on a view of nature, less fanciful, more earnest, and better fitted to awaken both philosophical thought and religious feeling.  A History of Greece - Page 143by Connop Thirlwall - 1845Full view - About this book
 | William Smith, Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1846 - 402 pages
...fanciful as might be expected. The most sober and probable view is that, according to which, " they were the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of...both philosophical thought and religious feeling." EUTHE'RIA (t ELEUTHE'RIA (t^evBipia), the feast of liberty, a festival which the Greeks, after the... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1851 - 366 pages
...fanciful as might be expected. The most sober and probable view is that, according to which, 44 they were the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of...both philosophical thought and religious feeling." ELEUTHE'RIA (&evOtptd), the feast of liberty, a festival which the Greeks, after the battle of Plataeae... | |
 | Horace - 1854 - 484 pages
...without any satisfactory result. The most probable supposition is that according to which " they were the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of...both philosophical thought and religious feeling." Thirlwall, Hist, of Greece, Vol. II. p. 140. 28, 29. fragilem phaselum; the pi,aselns, which was properly... | |
 | William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1859 - 1334 pages
...expected. The most sober and probable view is that, according to which, " they were the remains of n worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology...both philosophical thought and religious feeling." (Thirlwall, Hist, of Greece , ii. p. 140, &c.) Respecting the Attic Eleusinia sec Meursius, E/ctuinia,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 854 pages
...mysteries. As reasonable a solution as any other seems to be that of Bishop Thirlwall, who finds in them ' the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of...better fitted to awaken both philosophical thought aud religions feeling.' The festival itself consisted of two parts, the greater and the lesser mysteries.... | |
 | Cornelius Conway Felton - Greece - 1867 - 534 pages
...which were under the superintendence of hereditary priesthoods. Thirlwall thinks, that " they were the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of...both philosophical thought and religious feeling." This conclusion is still f'urthei confirmed by the moral and religious tone of the poets, — such... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 856 pages
...mysteries. As reasonable a solution as any other seems to be that of Bishop Thirlwall, who finds in them ' the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of...both philosophical thought and religious feeling." The festival itself consisted of two parts, the greater and the lesser mysteries. The less important... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 878 pages
...mysteries. As reasonable a solution as any other seems to be that of Bishop Thirlwall, who finds in them ' the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of...both philosophical thought and religious feeling.' The festival itself consisted of two parts, the greater and the lesser mysteries. The less important... | |
 | Cosmology - 1868 - 148 pages
...Bishop Thirlwall (the historian), an eminent scholar, says : " They were the remains of a " worship that preceded the rise of the Hellenic Mythology and its...both philosophical thought and " religious feeling." But we are left in no doubt as to the object of these Mysteries, for the Orphic Argonautica (poems... | |
 | William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1868 - 492 pages
...of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hol lenic mythology and its attendant rites, ¡[rounded on a view of nature, less fanciful, more earnest, and better fitted to awaken aoth philosophical thought and religious feeling." ÈLEUTHËRÏA (eAevOepta), the feast of iberty,... | |
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