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 SalisburyCadell and Davies, 1810 - 325 páginas |
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... gained , whose tenets were composed of some of the peculiar and mysterious doctrines of the Gospel , engrafted on their own impure and fanciful mythology . But although the empire of the Portuguese in India , c 2 19 ! ...
... gained , whose tenets were composed of some of the peculiar and mysterious doctrines of the Gospel , engrafted on their own impure and fanciful mythology . But although the empire of the Portuguese in India , c 2 19 ! ...
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... from other anci- ent writers . This investigation will finally conduct us to those traces , which may yet be discovered in the corrupted mythology of the Hindoos , decidedly pointing to a higher origin , and shew- ing 28.
... from other anci- ent writers . This investigation will finally conduct us to those traces , which may yet be discovered in the corrupted mythology of the Hindoos , decidedly pointing to a higher origin , and shew- ing 28.
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... mythology has supplied , are exhausted ; it is by these , that periods of immense duration are form- ed , which increase the amount of time to an extent , as boundless as the human imagination . That these periods are too artificially ...
... mythology has supplied , are exhausted ; it is by these , that periods of immense duration are form- ed , which increase the amount of time to an extent , as boundless as the human imagination . That these periods are too artificially ...
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... mythology of the East ; yet nothing has been found in it , which should induce us to prefer the fables of the Hindoos , to the fables of the Greeks . They have confirmed what was before known ; they have illustrated what was before ...
... mythology of the East ; yet nothing has been found in it , which should induce us to prefer the fables of the Hindoos , to the fables of the Greeks . They have confirmed what was before known ; they have illustrated what was before ...
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... mythology of the western nations ; and it is a striking proof of the univer- sality of the tradition , however obscured and corrupted , that the human race was once placed in a happier state , and that an inseparable connection existed ...
... mythology of the western nations ; and it is a striking proof of the univer- sality of the tradition , however obscured and corrupted , that the human race was once placed in a happier state , and that an inseparable connection existed ...
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afforded ancient antiquity arguments Arrian Asiatic assertion astronomical attempted authority benevolence Brahmà Brahminical system calculation cause Cesava character Christ Christian æra Christian faith Christian heresy Christian Religion chronology Church of Rome concerning conclusion confirmation corrupted dæmon degree Deity deluge derived discourse divine doctrines earth eastern world effects Egypt Egyptians enquire equally established Ethiopia evidence existence fables fact Gospel happiness heaven Hindoos Hindoostan Hindus human idolatry India infidelity influence inhabitants institutions Irenæus Jewish knowledge less Lord manner Megasthenes ment mind moral Mosaical history mythology nations native nature never object observation opinion origin Pagan passages peculiar period philosophers polytheism practical present preserved principles proof prove Puránas purity race racter records refined religion religion of mankind religious revelation sacred Sanscrit sect sentiments shew shewn spirit Strabo superior superstition supposed supposition tenets testimony thou tion tradition truth universal Védas Vishnu worship zodiac Zoroastrian δε
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.