A View of the Brahminical Religion: In Its Confirmation of the Truth of the Sacred History, and in Its Influence on the Moral Character |
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... language , which caused them to reject many foreign terms , as barbarous and dissonant ; yet to their faithful accuracy in the delineation of manners , the experience and obser- vation of modern times , have afforded abundant and ...
... language , which caused them to reject many foreign terms , as barbarous and dissonant ; yet to their faithful accuracy in the delineation of manners , the experience and obser- vation of modern times , have afforded abundant and ...
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... language of wonder- ful copiousness , and of exquisite refinement ; it has been studied by the metaphysician , as con- taining an elaborate system of abstruse philo- sophy ; it has been admired by the moralist , for the elevated tone ...
... language of wonder- ful copiousness , and of exquisite refinement ; it has been studied by the metaphysician , as con- taining an elaborate system of abstruse philo- sophy ; it has been admired by the moralist , for the elevated tone ...
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... languages , and therefore in the Sanscrit language have taken place in times very nearly proportional ; and that by ascertaining the age of some modern production , we may be enabled to fix the age of another more ancient , by ...
... languages , and therefore in the Sanscrit language have taken place in times very nearly proportional ; and that by ascertaining the age of some modern production , we may be enabled to fix the age of another more ancient , by ...
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... language , and that ductility , by which they readily yield to the powers of the imagination . * In the countries of the East , where the serenity of the climate is peculiarly favourable to the observation of the celestial luminaries ...
... language , and that ductility , by which they readily yield to the powers of the imagination . * In the countries of the East , where the serenity of the climate is peculiarly favourable to the observation of the celestial luminaries ...
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... language , with a little variation , express the same symbols , with those which we have received from the Greeks ; who in their turn bor- rowed them from the Egyptians . While this circumstance incontestably shews , that there has been ...
... language , with a little variation , express the same symbols , with those which we have received from the Greeks ; who in their turn bor- rowed them from the Egyptians . While this circumstance incontestably shews , that there has been ...
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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 34 - ... the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of the Lord and of His Christ for ever and ever.
Page 160 - 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.
Page 179 - And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 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 79 - God had •determined to bring upon the earth at once, " the windows of heaven were opened, and the fountains of the great deep broken up.
Page 251 - Arya couplet, which was written at least three centuries before our era, and which pronounces the duty of a good man, even in the moment of his destruction, to consist 'not only in forgiving, but even in a desire of benefiting his destroyer; as the sandal tree, in the instant of its overthrow, sheds perfume on the axe which fells it...
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 170 - His dominion shall be also from the . one sea to the other : and from the flood unto the world's end. 9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall kneel before him : his enemies shall lick the dust.