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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... calculation . The date of these records has however , not without plausible reason , been placed at a period , anterior to any other written monuments of profane history ; and has indeed been carried , by some , far beyond the time of ...
... calculation . The date of these records has however , not without plausible reason , been placed at a period , anterior to any other written monuments of profane history ; and has indeed been carried , by some , far beyond the time of ...
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... calculations , and from their history : and it will be shewn , that their scheme , far from invali- dating , will confirm the sacred chronology . Ad- vancing from negative to positive proofs , a dis- quisition will succeed , on the ...
... calculations , and from their history : and it will be shewn , that their scheme , far from invali- dating , will confirm the sacred chronology . Ad- vancing from negative to positive proofs , a dis- quisition will succeed , on the ...
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... calculations which can be drawn from the gradual and successive improve- ments of science . Knowledge has never been known to increase according to any fixed rule of progression , at any two given periods of equal duration . Even the ...
... calculations which can be drawn from the gradual and successive improve- ments of science . Knowledge has never been known to increase according to any fixed rule of progression , at any two given periods of equal duration . Even the ...
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... calculations of the Egyptians , and of the Chinese , have been generally given up , as untenable , many of the astronomical æras of the Indian Brahmins have been supposed to display an accuracy , which could not have taken place ...
... calculations of the Egyptians , and of the Chinese , have been generally given up , as untenable , many of the astronomical æras of the Indian Brahmins have been supposed to display an accuracy , which could not have taken place ...
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... calculations have been applied to ascertain dates , and to the rectification of chro- nological errors , they have been discovered to be either false , or so interwoven with allegory , that little credit can be attached to any ...
... calculations have been applied to ascertain dates , and to the rectification of chro- nological errors , they have been discovered to be either false , or so interwoven with allegory , that little credit can be attached to any ...
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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.