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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... present work , that they are principally designed for readers unac- quainted with Asiatic literature . They might have been advantageously extended , but the Author was unwilling to add more than were absolutely neces- sary , until the ...
... present work , that they are principally designed for readers unac- quainted with Asiatic literature . They might have been advantageously extended , but the Author was unwilling to add more than were absolutely neces- sary , until the ...
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... presents a state , alike suited to the wants of man , and congenial with the attributes of a wise and benevolent Creator ; and we cannot sometimes forbear to wonder at the infatuation of that people , who could wrest them into pledges ...
... presents a state , alike suited to the wants of man , and congenial with the attributes of a wise and benevolent Creator ; and we cannot sometimes forbear to wonder at the infatuation of that people , who could wrest them into pledges ...
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... present very limited and partial establishment , as a proof , that this pretension must be founded on a strained . interpretation of allegorical passages , rather than on any solid conclusions , drawn from reason and experience ...
... present very limited and partial establishment , as a proof , that this pretension must be founded on a strained . interpretation of allegorical passages , rather than on any solid conclusions , drawn from reason and experience ...
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... present , their reli- gion exhibited proofs of long establishment . Their division into separate tribes or castes , by which a community in religious worship , as well as in social intercourse , was restricted , together with the ...
... present , their reli- gion exhibited proofs of long establishment . Their division into separate tribes or castes , by which a community in religious worship , as well as in social intercourse , was restricted , together with the ...
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... dominion of all these different powers , the design of controlling the religious opinions of their colonial subjects , and of super- seding their present tenets , has been prosecuted 1 by different means , and with different degrees of 20.
... dominion of all these different powers , the design of controlling the religious opinions of their colonial subjects , and of super- seding their present tenets , has been prosecuted 1 by different means , and with different degrees of 20.
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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.