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" Tien is called the ancestor of all things; the highest that is above. He is called the great framer, who makes things as a potter frames an earthen vessel. The Chinese also speak of the decrees and the will of Heaven, of the steps of Heaven or Providence.... "
An Inquiry Into the Proper Mode of Rendering the Word God in Translating the ... - Page 20
by Walter Henry Medhurst - 1848 - 170 pages
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The Chinese Repository, Volume 17

Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - China - 1848 - 676 pages
...the most High Ruler, in shewing loving-kindness to every re1849. Chinr.sr term fur Duty 123 gion. " The glorious Heaven is called bright (or clearly discerning),...way of Heaven is to send blessings on the good and cat-unities on the vicious." In the Shoo-king, Book 3, sect. 2, we read that " Heaven has formed mankind...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 106

American periodicals - 1870 - 880 pages
...whole of the religious phraseology of the Chinese. " The glorious heaven," we read, " is called bright, it accompanies you wherever you go ; the glorious...heaven is called luminous, it goes wherever you roam." Tien is called the ancestor of all things; the highest that is above. He is called the great framer,...
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Introduction to the Science of Religion: Four Lectures Delivered at the ...

Friedrich Max Müller - Religion and science - 1870 - 80 pages
...whole of the religious phraseology of the Chinese. ' The glorious heaven,' we read, 'is called bright, it accompanies you wherever you go ; the glorious...heaven is called luminous, it goes wherever you roam.' Тгеп is called the ancestor of all things ; the highest that is above. He is called the great framer,...
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The Living Age, Volume 106

1870 - 844 pages
...whole of the religious phraseology of the Chinese. " The glorious heaven," we read, " is called bright, it accompanies you wherever you go ; the glorious...heaven is called luminous, it goes wherever you roam." Tien is called the ancestor of all things ; the highest that is above. He is called the great framer,...
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Lectures on the Science of Religion: With a Paper on Buddhist Nihilism, and ...

Friedrich Max Müller - Buddhism - 1872 - 340 pages
...whole of the religious phraseology of the Chinese. " The glorious heaven," we read, " is called bright, it accompanies you wherever you go ; the glorious...heaven is called luminous, it goes wherever you roam." Tien is called the ancestor of all things ; the highest that is above. He is called the great framer,...
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Introduction to the Science of Religion: Four Lectures Delivered at the ...

Friedrich Max Müller - Mythology - 1873 - 454 pages
...whole of the religious phraseology of the Chinese. ' The glorious heaven,' we read, ' is called bright, it accompanies you wherever you go ; the glorious...heaven is called luminous, it goes wherever you roam.' Tien is called the ancestor of all things ; the highest that is above. He is called the great framer,...
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Introduction to the Science of Religion

F. Max Muller - 1893 - 380 pages
...Tao-sse represented their (Yah-hwang) Shang-te under the human form. — Medhurst, ' Inquiry,' p. 46. go; the glorious heaven is called luminous, it goes wherever you roam.' Tien is called the ancestor of all things; the highest that is above. He is called the great framer,...
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The Congregationalist, Volume 4

Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - Congregational churches - 1875 - 780 pages
...the whole religious phraseology of the Chinese. 'The glorious heaven,' we read, 'is called bright; it accompanies you wherever you go; the glorious heaven is called luminous, it goes wherever you roam.' Tien is called the ancestor of all things ; the highest that is above. He is called the great framer,...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 1

James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1870 - 874 pages
...whole of the religious phraseology of the Chinese. ' The glorious heaven,' we read, 'is called bright, it accompanies you wherever you go ; the glorious...heaven is called luminous, it goes wherever you roam.' T-ien is called the ancestor of all things ; the highest that is above. He is called the great framer,...
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