The Progress of Religious Ideas, Through Successive Ages, Volume 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
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Page ix
... earth , so Truth be in the field , we do injuriously to doubt her strength . Let her and falsehood grapple . Who ever knew Truth put to the worse by a free and open encounter ? Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puis- sant nation ...
... earth , so Truth be in the field , we do injuriously to doubt her strength . Let her and falsehood grapple . Who ever knew Truth put to the worse by a free and open encounter ? Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puis- sant nation ...
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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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Page ix - ... methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance...
Page 421 - 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 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 409 - 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 408 - 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 442 - 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.
Page 383 - And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Page 408 - Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket, and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Page 414 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day, whom ye will serve .... but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 406 - Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD. 29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.