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... Aryan race holds his court . We have before us a state of intellectual culture resembling that of Athens , in the age of its earlier philosophers ; a splendour and magnificence like that of Bagdad , in the days of its most famous ...
... Aryan race holds his court . We have before us a state of intellectual culture resembling that of Athens , in the age of its earlier philosophers ; a splendour and magnificence like that of Bagdad , in the days of its most famous ...
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... Aryan race before this period , and that it was employed for religious purposes by the Buddhist monarch Asóka , the father of Mahindo , by which means he sought to extend its doctrines among all classes of his subjects , and in all ...
... Aryan race before this period , and that it was employed for religious purposes by the Buddhist monarch Asóka , the father of Mahindo , by which means he sought to extend its doctrines among all classes of his subjects , and in all ...
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... Aryans were led to worship the elements ; first , the gods who direct them , and then the material powers themselves ... Aryan settlers , and their poets , the rishis , when they descended from the rugged mountain , and entered the vast ...
... Aryans were led to worship the elements ; first , the gods who direct them , and then the material powers themselves ... Aryan settlers , and their poets , the rishis , when they descended from the rugged mountain , and entered the vast ...
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... Aryan race became a settled people , and were no longer nomads , it would be seen by the more thoughtful that the spirit of the Vedas was not in unison with their present circumstances ; and that the most im- portant questions they were ...
... Aryan race became a settled people , and were no longer nomads , it would be seen by the more thoughtful that the spirit of the Vedas was not in unison with their present circumstances ; and that the most im- portant questions they were ...
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... Aryan race than in that of the Hellenes , but there was greater intensity of feeling on all subjects connected with man's duty and destiny . In the fact that Buddha encoun-- tered many rivals , whose power he confessed , we have ...
... Aryan race than in that of the Hellenes , but there was greater intensity of feeling on all subjects connected with man's duty and destiny . In the fact that Buddha encoun-- tered many rivals , whose power he confessed , we have ...
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Page 175 - Behold, I shew you a mystery ; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump ; for the trumpet shall sound ; and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is...
Page 39 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...
Page 175 - ... in hell for many years, for many hundreds of years, for many thousands of years, for many hundreds of thousands of years; and...
Page 67 - The profoundly wise priests had heretofore orally perpetuated the Pali Pitakattaya and its ArthakathS (commentaries). At this period these priests, foreseeing the perdition of the people (from the perversions of the true doctrines) assembled ; and in order that the religion might endure for ages, recorded the same in...
Page 11 - Brahmin eats but his own food ; wears but his own apparel ; and bestows but his own in alms : through the benevolence of the Brahmin, indeed, other mortals enjoy life.
Page 185 - You have to proclaim glad tidings fresh as when they came from angels' lips, To you is born in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.