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  • Their physical science and their daemonology may have been on a par with those of the world around them: but they possessed what the world did not possess, faith in the utterly good and self-sacrificing God, and an ideal of virtue and purity such as had never been seen since the first Whitsuntide.

    The Hermits Charles Kingsley 1847

  • The model of religious life for the fifth century, it remained a model for succeeding centuries; on the lives of St. Antony and his compeers were founded the whole literature of saintly biographies; the whole popular conception of the universe, and of man's relation to it; the whole science of daemonology, with its peculiar literature, its peculiar system of criminal jurisprudence.

    The Hermits Charles Kingsley 1847

  • In daemonology, for example; “The air,” he says, “is not so full of flies in summer as it is at all times of invisible devils.

    Uncollected Prose 2006

  • [daemonology. net] (obviously, apply s/8. 0-BETA1/8. 0-RELEASE/to the instructions).

    Slashdot 2009

  • [daemonology. net] (obviously, apply s/8. 0-BETA1/8. 0-RELEASE/to the instructions).

    Slashdot 2009

  • [Here follows a long sermon, historically important, as being the earliest Christian attempt to reduce to a science daemonology and the temptation of daemons: but its involved and rhetorical form proves sufficiently that it could not have been delivered by an unlettered man like Antony.

    The Hermits Charles Kingsley 1847

  • In daemonology, for example; "The air," he says, "is not so full of flies in summer as it is at all times of invisible devils.

    Uncollected Prose 1832

  • Alcoran of the pagan daemonology) many ages before the appearing of any of the Greek philosophers or historians; and long before them (if we may give credit to the antiquities of Greece), even before the days of

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • 284 HISTORY OP in all probability I was the. only exam - ple in the world, I was not a renegade from any of my former principles, from any of my former Centiments; and, ex - cepting the gnoftic daemonology of Ke - rinchus, I remained in my internal mi - crocofm, jtift aa I was before.

    Private history of Peregrinus Proteus, the philosopher Wieland, Christoph Martin, 1733-1813 1796

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