 A celebrated work by Porphyry contains a page of a lost work by Chseremon, librarian in one of the sacred temples in Egypt, which has a very instructive passage, enouncing a doctrine both substantially and verbally identical with that of the book of Proverbs...  The Science Temperance Text-book - Sida 132efter Frederic Richard Lees - 1884Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Porphyry - 1823 - 298 sidor
...was slender and simple. For, with respect to wine, some of them did not at all drink it, but others drank very little of it, on account of its being injurious to the nerves, oppressive to the head, an impediment to invention, and an incentive to venereal desires. In many other things also they conducted... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1809 - 332 sidor
...disturb the reason." 105. A celebrated work by Porphyry contains a page of a lost work, by Chceremon, librarian in one of the sacred temples in Egypt, which...not drink wine at all, and others [inferior] drank veiy little of it, on account of its being injurious to the nerves, oppressive to the head, an impediment... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1869 - 326 sidor
...disturb the . reason." 105. A celebrated work by Porphyry contains a page of a lost work, by Chaeremon, librarian in one of the sacred temples in Egypt, which has a very instructive 104. Was teetotalism an ancient doctrine ? State two remarkable examples concerning India. passage,... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1871 - 296 sidor
...and disturb the reason." A celebrated work by Porphyry contains a page of a lost work by Chseremon, librarian in one of the sacred temples in Egypt, which...injurious to the nerves, oppressive to the head, an impediment to invention, and an incentive to lust." — Plutarch informs us, that even the priests... | |
 | Frederick Powell - 1871 - 324 sidor
...the Temple of Serapis : — " with respect to wine some of them did not drink it at all, and others drank very little of it, on account of its being injurious to the nerves, oppressive to the head, an impediment to invention, and an incentive to lust." Though among some nations, that form of intemperance... | |
 | Frederick Powell - 1874 - 290 sidor
...the Temple of Serapis : — " With respect to wine some of them did not drink it at all, and others drank very little of it, on account of its being injurious to the nerves, oppressive" to the head, an impediment to invention, and an incentive to lust." Though among some nations that form of intemperance... | |
 | Frederick Powell - 1878 - 288 sidor
...in the Temple of Serapis:—" With respect to wine some of them did not drink it at all, and others drank very little of it, on account of its being injurious to the nerves, oppressive to the head, an impediment to invention, and an incentive to lust." Though among some nations that form of intemperance... | |
 | George Whitefield Samson - 1879 - 356 sidor
...in Egypt under the Csesars, this historic record: " Some do not drink wine at all, and others drink very little of it, on account of its being injurious to- the nerves, oppressive to the head, an impediment to invention, and an incentive to lust." In modern explorations, Champollion notes, as at... | |
 | George Whitefield Samson - 1879 - 340 sidor
...in Egypt under the Caesars, this historic record : " Some do not drink wine at all, and others drink very little of it, on account of its being injurious to the nerves, oppressive to the head, an impediment to invention, and an incentive to lust." In modern explorations, Champollion notes, as at... | |
 | John Ellis - 1882 - 238 sidor
...in Egypt under the Caesars, this historic record : 'Some do not drink wine at all, and others drink very little of it, on account of its being injurious to the nerves, oppressive to the head, an impediment to invention, and an incentive to lust.' " In the ' Hieratic Papyri,' or records of Egyptian... | |
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