 | Adam Smith - 1795 - 402 pages
...intelligent, though invifible beings, to gods, daemons, witches, genii, fairies. For it may be obferved, that in all Polytheiftic religions, among favages,...water refrefhes ; heavy bodies defcend, and lighter fubflances fly upwards, by the neceffity of their own nature ; nor was the invifible hand of Jupiter... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 pages
...witches, genii, fairies. For it may be observed, that in all polytheistic religions, among savages, as well as in the early ages of heathen antiquity,...it is the irregular events of nature only that are ascribed to the agency and power of their gods. Fire burns, and water refreshes; heavy bodies descend,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1822 - 350 pages
...intelligent, though invifible be* ings, to gods, daemons, witches, genii, fairies. For it may be obferved, that in all Polytheiftic religions, among favages,...hand of Jupiter ever apprehended to be employed in thole matters. But thunder and lightning, ftorms and funfhine, tliofe more irregular events, were afcribed... | |
 | Peter Minowitz - 1993 - 376 pages
...differently to regular and irregular phenomena: It is the irregular events of nature only that are ascribed to the agency and power of their gods. Fire burns, and water refreshes; heavy bodies descend, and lighter substances fly upwards, by the necessity of their own... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 pages
...witches, genii, fairies. For it may be observed, that in all polytheistic religions, among savages, as well as in the early ages of heathen antiquity,...it is the irregular events of nature only that are ascribed to the agency and power of their gods. Fire burns, and water refreshes; heavy bodies descend,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 pages
...witches, genii, fairies. For it may be observed, that in all Polytheistic religions, among savages, as well as in the early ages of Heathen antiquity,...it is the irregular events of nature only that are ascribed to the agency and power of their gods. Fire burns, and water refreshes; heavy bodies descend,... | |
 | Jerry Evensky - 2005 - 364 pages
...witches, genii, faires. For it may be observed, that in all Polytheistic religions, among savages, as well as in the early ages of Heathen antiquity,...it is the irregular events of nature only that are ascribed to the agency and power of their gods. Fire burns, and water refreshes; heavy bodies descend,... | |
 | Mark Skousen - 2007 - 280 pages
...discusses superstitious peoples who ascribed unusual events to the handiwork of unseen gods: Among savages, as well as in the early ages of Heathen antiquity,...it is the irregular events of nature only that are ascribed to the agency and power of their gods. Fire burns, and water refreshes; heavy bodies descend... | |
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... it is the irregular events of nature only that are ascribed to the agency and power of their gods. Fire burns, and water refreshes; heavy bodies descend, and lighter substances fly upwards, by the necessity of their own nature; nor was the invisible... 