The Progress of Religious Ideas, Through Successive Ages, Volume 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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... earth ; and their traditions place the creation of the world many millions of years farther back than we do . First , there was an age of purity , called the Satya Yug , when men lived to an immense age , and were more than thirty feet ...
... earth ; and their traditions place the creation of the world many millions of years farther back than we do . First , there was an age of purity , called the Satya Yug , when men lived to an immense age , and were more than thirty feet ...
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... earth did in fact enclose a peaceful hermitage within its bosom . " These hermits , in obedience to the injunctions of Hindoo religion , imparted freely of all they had to men and animals . Thus their places of retreat came to be con ...
... earth did in fact enclose a peaceful hermitage within its bosom . " These hermits , in obedience to the injunctions of Hindoo religion , imparted freely of all they had to men and animals . Thus their places of retreat came to be con ...
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... earth and return to it again , so does everything in the universe emanate from this divine essence , subsist continually by it , and finally return to it . " This law of alternate emanation and absorption governs all things , from a ...
... earth and return to it again , so does everything in the universe emanate from this divine essence , subsist continually by it , and finally return to it . " This law of alternate emanation and absorption governs all things , from a ...
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... earth in a visible body . His name is held in exceeding reverence , and none but the Brahmins utter it . They make daily invocations to him , and sometimes offer him a flower . No sect of worshippers bears his name , and no temples or ...
... earth in a visible body . His name is held in exceeding reverence , and none but the Brahmins utter it . They make daily invocations to him , and sometimes offer him a flower . No sect of worshippers bears his name , and no temples or ...
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... earth fruitful with beauty , excited wonder and worship in the first inhabitants of our world , is it strange that they likewise regarded with reverence the great mystery of human Birth ? Were they impure thus to regard it ? Or are we ...
... earth fruitful with beauty , excited wonder and worship in the first inhabitants of our world , is it strange that they likewise regarded with reverence the great mystery of human Birth ? Were they impure thus to regard it ? Or are we ...
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Page 402 - And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Page ix - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 400 - And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people ; now, therefore, let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them ; and I will make of thee a great nation.
Page 419 - And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
Page 438 - And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all. And he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Page ix - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 401 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 407 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 406 - The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart...
Page 440 - And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.