A View of the Brahminical Religion: In Its Confirmation of the Truth of the Sacred History, and in Its Influence on the Moral Character; in a Series of Discourses, Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1809, at the Lecture Founded by the Late Rev. John Bampton, M.A., Canon of Salisbury |
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... institutions has been represented as containing the essence of the most comprehensive wisdom and refined policy . 2 It is a fact which deserves attention , that while those abuses , which have been introduced into our religion , through ...
... institutions has been represented as containing the essence of the most comprehensive wisdom and refined policy . 2 It is a fact which deserves attention , that while those abuses , which have been introduced into our religion , through ...
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... institutions , have enjoyed little intercourse with the rest of the world , and who , on that account , have retained many of their ancient traditions uncorrupted , is an assertion capable of the same incontestable proof . But that if ...
... institutions , have enjoyed little intercourse with the rest of the world , and who , on that account , have retained many of their ancient traditions uncorrupted , is an assertion capable of the same incontestable proof . But that if ...
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... institutions , and their original independence.— Many of them have been adopted , with little varia- tion , by the Greeks , and inserted in their systems of geography . The labors of the etymologist , the antiquary , and the naturalist ...
... institutions , and their original independence.— Many of them have been adopted , with little varia- tion , by the Greeks , and inserted in their systems of geography . The labors of the etymologist , the antiquary , and the naturalist ...
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... institutions , which derive their origin more immediately from religious sanctions . The first of these criteria is the least to be depended on , though most obvious to a common observer , unless it could be precisely ascertained what ...
... institutions , which derive their origin more immediately from religious sanctions . The first of these criteria is the least to be depended on , though most obvious to a common observer , unless it could be precisely ascertained what ...
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... institutions . The other incidental proofs being of less import- ance will consequently claim less of our attention . In entering on the discussion of this subject , it is natural to advert to a question which has been long agitated ...
... institutions . The other incidental proofs being of less import- ance will consequently claim less of our attention . In entering on the discussion of this subject , it is natural to advert to a question which has been long agitated ...
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Page 182 - And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Page 75 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 165 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 39 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 146 - He, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person.
Page 3 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.