 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...and likcwife in Hiudoibn, mean only the powers of nature, and principally thofe of the fun, expreffed in a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names." Nor is it only in Greece, Rome, Egypt, and India, that the progrefs of idolatry has been from planetaiy... | |
 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - Asia - 1801 - 580 pages
...Rome, and modern Vdranes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally thofe of the Sun, expreffed in a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names. i Thus have I attempted to trace, imperfectly at preent, for want of ampler materials, but with a confiU... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 480 pages
...Rome, and modern Vdrdnes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally thofe of the SUN, exprefled in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names. Thus have I attempted to trace, imperfe&ly at prefent for want of ampler materials, but with a confidence... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1807 - 488 pages
...Rome, and modern Vardnes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally thofe of the SUN, exprefled in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names. Thus have I attempted to trace, imperfectly at prefent for want of ampler materials, but with a confidence... | |
 | Classical philology - 1813 - 514 pages
...opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses, in ancient Rome and modern Varanes ( Henares) mean only the powers of nature, and principally those...variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names." Since the appearance of this work, Major Moor has given to the public an account of the practice of... | |
 | William Ward - Hindu mythology - 1815 - 588 pages
...well founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods ami goddesses in Ancient Rome, ami modern Vanares, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways, and •of worship. Hence the gj)ds, the heavens collectively, the sun and moon, as well as the stars, the... | |
 | William Ward - 1817 - 424 pages
...well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Vanares, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those...variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names.' Sir W. Janet. — ' Nature herself, and its plastic powers, originating solely in the sovereign energies... | |
 | James Mill - Hindus - 1817 - 688 pages
...well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses, in ancient Rome and modern Varanes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those...variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names." * He says too, that " the three Powers, Creative, Preservative, and Destructive, which the Hindus express... | |
 | John Hughes - Druids and druidism - 1818 - 378 pages
...well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses, in ancient Rome and modern Varanes, (or Benares,) mean only the powers of nature, and principally...variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names." Asiatic Researches, Vol. I. p. 267. — See also the Argument of Sir Wm. Jones's Hymn to Surya. As... | |
 | James Mill - British - 1820 - 496 pages
...well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses, in ancient Rome and modern Varanes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those...a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names."1 He says too, that " the three Powers, Creative, Preservative, and Destructive, which the Hindus... | |
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VVe must not be surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other, and at last into one or two ; for it seems a well-founded opinion that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses,... 
