 | William Hayley - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...fuperafque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor eft *. " Thefe particulars are abfolutely irreconcileable with the idea of initiation, but perfectly agreeable...ftated times, a few days at moft in the courfe of a year. The mimic defcent of the Myfteries was laborious and dangerous, the return to light eafy and... | |
 | William Hayley - English poetry - 1782 - 312 pages
...fuperafque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor eft*. " Thefe particulars are abfolutely irreconcileable with the idea of initiation, but perfectly agreeable to that of a real defcent. That every /lep and every inftant may lead us to the grave, is a melancholy truth. The Myfteries were only open... | |
 | William Hayley - 1785 - 238 pages
...fuperafque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor eft *. " Thefe particulars are abfolutely irreconcileable with the idea of initiation, but perfectly agreeable...only open at ftated times, a few days at moft in the / * /Entid vi. izfi. courfc courfe of a year. The mimic defcent of the Myf-. teries was laborious and... | |
 | William Hayley - English poetry - 1785 - 310 pages
...fuperafque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor eft j| " Thefe particulars are abfolutely irreconcileable with the idea of initiation, but perfectly agreeable to that of a teal defcent. That every ftep and every infllant may lead us to the grave, is a melancholy truth. The... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 850 pages
...superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est.§ These particulars are absolutely irreconcileable with the idea of initiation, but perfectly agreeable to that of a real descent. That every step, and every instant, may lead us to the grave is a melancholy truth. The mysteries... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est.|| These particulars are absolutely irreconcilcable with the idea of initiation, but perfectly agreeable to that of a real descent. That * See DL vol. i. particularly p. 280. f Strabo, lib. vp 168. J Silius Italicus, lib.... | |
 | Joseph Salathiel Tunison - Comparative literature - 1888 - 262 pages
...superasque evadere ad auras Hoc opus, hie labor est. "These particulars are absolutely irreconcilable with the idea of initiation, but perfectly agreeable to that of a real descent. That every step and every instant may lead us to the grave is a melancholy truth. The mysteries... | |
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That every ftep and every inftant may lead us to the grave, is a melancholy truth. The Myfteries were only open at ftated times, a few days at moft in the / * /Entid vi. 