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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... Megasthenes had been pre- served entire from the wreck of time , a valuable accession of information would have been sup- plied , to that which we already possess , on the science and literature of the ancient Brahmins . From a long ...
... Megasthenes had been pre- served entire from the wreck of time , a valuable accession of information would have been sup- plied , to that which we already possess , on the science and literature of the ancient Brahmins . From a long ...
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... monarch to their original founder farther than above six thousand years before the invasion of Alexander . The veracity of Megasthenes , as he ! Arrian . Indic . c . 9 . is thus cited by Arrian , is the more strongly 52.
... monarch to their original founder farther than above six thousand years before the invasion of Alexander . The veracity of Megasthenes , as he ! Arrian . Indic . c . 9 . is thus cited by Arrian , is the more strongly 52.
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... Megasthenes were in our possession , some admission might be found which would set aside the inference attempted to be drawn from this solitary passage . To obviate this objection , and to corroborate what has now been advanced , a ...
... Megasthenes were in our possession , some admission might be found which would set aside the inference attempted to be drawn from this solitary passage . To obviate this objection , and to corroborate what has now been advanced , a ...
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... Megasthenes be com- pared with that cited by Arrian ; if six thousand years before the invasion of Alexander were the utmost limit to which they then attempted to trace their origin ; and should this method of stating the argument be ...
... Megasthenes be com- pared with that cited by Arrian ; if six thousand years before the invasion of Alexander were the utmost limit to which they then attempted to trace their origin ; and should this method of stating the argument be ...
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... Megasthenes . ] Μεγασθένης , ο συγγραφευς των Σελευκι τῳ Νικατορι συμβεβιωκως , εν τη τρίτη των Ινδίκων ωδε γραφειο μεν ΠΕΡΙ ΦΥΣΕΩΣ ειρημένα παρα τοις αρχαίοις , λεγεται και παρά τοις έξω της Ελλάδος φιλοσοφεσι , τα μεν , παρ Ινδοις υπο ...
... Megasthenes . ] Μεγασθένης , ο συγγραφευς των Σελευκι τῳ Νικατορι συμβεβιωκως , εν τη τρίτη των Ινδίκων ωδε γραφειο μεν ΠΕΡΙ ΦΥΣΕΩΣ ειρημένα παρα τοις αρχαίοις , λεγεται και παρά τοις έξω της Ελλάδος φιλοσοφεσι , τα μεν , παρ Ινδοις υπο ...
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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.