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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... marked by none of those enormities , which have so often disgraced those nations , who from motives of avarice or ambition have planted distant colonies . The earliest mis- sionaries also , who laboured to convert the natives of India ...
... marked by none of those enormities , which have so often disgraced those nations , who from motives of avarice or ambition have planted distant colonies . The earliest mis- sionaries also , who laboured to convert the natives of India ...
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... marked the most important periods of the rural year . Nothing can afford a stronger argument , that the sphere of the Egyptians is a secondary sphere ; that finding the order of the signs did not correspond with the natural order of ...
... marked the most important periods of the rural year . Nothing can afford a stronger argument , that the sphere of the Egyptians is a secondary sphere ; that finding the order of the signs did not correspond with the natural order of ...
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... marked events , which force themselves on the notice of posterity . If it should be said , that long intervals of succeeding ignorance and depression , may have obliterated every vestige of these transactions , we can reply , that such ...
... marked events , which force themselves on the notice of posterity . If it should be said , that long intervals of succeeding ignorance and depression , may have obliterated every vestige of these transactions , we can reply , that such ...
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... marked , in the countries situated nearest to the spot whence the renovated race of man first migrated , is a supposition equally rational and indisputable with the former . Still farther : that those traces should be longest preserved ...
... marked , in the countries situated nearest to the spot whence the renovated race of man first migrated , is a supposition equally rational and indisputable with the former . Still farther : that those traces should be longest preserved ...
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... marked by truth , and are equally conformable to the history of Moses , as those which are preserved in Egypt . But although the concurrent voice of antiquity thus loudly responds to the testimony of the Hebrew historian ; though the ...
... marked by truth , and are equally conformable to the history of Moses , as those which are preserved in Egypt . But although the concurrent voice of antiquity thus loudly responds to the testimony of the Hebrew historian ; though the ...
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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.