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  • Semiramis had begun, and mingled the manifold families of mankind by joining the eastern to the western world, the Orient became formally hellenised.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The fact that the old Catholic Fathers have both Christs shows more clearly than any other the middle position that they occupy between the acutely hellenised Christianity of the theologians, i.e., the Gnostics, and the old tradition of the Church.

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • Christianity from being hellenised to the most extreme extent, but, as time went on, it was forced to admit into this religion an ever greater measure of secularisation.

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • If an early Christian element is here preserved by the Gnostic schools, it has undoubtedly been hellenised and secularised as the reports shew.

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • "Judaising" within Catholicism which appears, on the one hand, in the setting up of a Catholic ceremonial law (worship, constitution, etc.), and on the other, in a tenacious clinging to less hellenised forms of faith and hopes of faith, has nothing in common with Jewish

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • The Gospel was hellenised in the second century in so far as the

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • It retained therefore, so far as it was not hellenised, which never altogether took place, its original Jewish features.

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • One of these, the indefatigable henchman Laelius, had risen to the rank of consul, and stimulated by the vigorous theorisings of his hellenised environment, he contemplated for a moment the formation of a plan which should deal with some of the worst evils of the agrarian question.

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

  • Spaniard fierce and proud, required different methods of management and inspired different precautions; yet experience soon proved that the hellenised sons of the East had a better capacity for organising revolt than their fellow-sufferers from the North and West, and much of the harshness of Roman slavery was prompted by the panic which is the nemesis of the man who deals in human lives.

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

  • But the Roman public would not be hellenised in this particular, and showed their mood when a musical exhibition was attempted at the triumph of Lucius Anicius Gallus in 167.

    A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

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