A View of the Brahminical Religion: In Its Confirmation of the Truth of the Sacred History, and in Its Influence on the Moral CharacterCadell and Davies, 1810 - 325 páginas |
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... conduct . Those venerable characters , " who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost , " exhibit a disposition equally distant from unfeeling bigotry , interested concealment , or ser- vile adulation . Through all their predictions ...
... conduct . Those venerable characters , " who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost , " exhibit a disposition equally distant from unfeeling bigotry , interested concealment , or ser- vile adulation . Through all their predictions ...
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... conducted by the insatiable avarice of Mammood , or by the fero- cious courage of Timur , we behold the same wan- ton insult , and licentious barbarity . Religion was the pretext , and plunder the object , by which they were impelled ...
... conducted by the insatiable avarice of Mammood , or by the fero- cious courage of Timur , we behold the same wan- ton insult , and licentious barbarity . Religion was the pretext , and plunder the object , by which they were impelled ...
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... conduct . With respect to the authenticity and antiquity of those records , and to the degree of credit which they may claim , various and contradictory opini- ons have been entertained . While in the true spirit of fiction and romance ...
... conduct . With respect to the authenticity and antiquity of those records , and to the degree of credit which they may claim , various and contradictory opini- ons have been entertained . While in the true spirit of fiction and romance ...
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... collected 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.
... collected 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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... conduct has , in every instance , proceeded from disingenuous , motives , would be a harsh assertion . The cause may rather be discovered in that propensity , which exists in human nature , to swell those evils which come immediately ...
... conduct has , in every instance , proceeded from disingenuous , motives , would be a harsh assertion . The cause may rather be discovered in that propensity , which exists in human nature , to swell those evils which come immediately ...
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afforded ancient antiquity appear arguments Arrian Asiatic assertion astronomical attempted authority benevolence Brahmà Brahminical records Brahminical system calculation cause Cesava character Christ Christian æra Christian faith Christian heresy Christian Religion chronology Church of Rome concerning conclusion confirm corrupted dæmon degree Deity deluge derived DISCOURSE divine doctrines earth eastern world effects Egypt Egyptians equally established Ethiopia event evidence existence fables fact Gospel happiness heaven Hindoos Hindoostan Hindus human idolatry inculcates India infidelity influence inhabitants institutions Jewish knowledge less Lord mankind 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 proofs prove Puránas purity race racter reason refined religion religious revelation sacred Sanscrit sect sentiments shew spirit Strabo superior superstition supposed supposition tenets testimony thou tion tradition truth universal Védas Vishnu worship zodiac Zoroastrian
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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 34 - ... the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of the Lord and of His Christ for ever and ever.
Página 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.
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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
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 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.