The Travels of Cyrus: To which is Annexed A Discourse Upon the Theology and Mythology of the PagansPratt and Doubleday, 1814 - 404 pages |
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Page xiv
... Deity , who produced the world by his power and governs it by his wisdom . To this end Zoroaster unveils to us all the wonders of nature . Hermes consults the native and genuine ten- dency of the heart , and Pythagoras ascends to first ...
... Deity , who produced the world by his power and governs it by his wisdom . To this end Zoroaster unveils to us all the wonders of nature . Hermes consults the native and genuine ten- dency of the heart , and Pythagoras ascends to first ...
Page xv
... Deity , in almost all times and all countries . The author's intention throughout his whole system , was to shew the wild extravagance of those who main- tain that the doctrines of religion are only the effects of the ignorance and ...
... Deity , in almost all times and all countries . The author's intention throughout his whole system , was to shew the wild extravagance of those who main- tain that the doctrines of religion are only the effects of the ignorance and ...
Page xvii
... Deity , but they were deists ; Eleazar resembled the Socinians , who were for subjecting reli- gion to philosophy ; Daniel represents a perfect Chris- tian , and the hero of this book a young prince , who be- gan to be corrupted by the ...
... Deity , but they were deists ; Eleazar resembled the Socinians , who were for subjecting reli- gion to philosophy ; Daniel represents a perfect Chris- tian , and the hero of this book a young prince , who be- gan to be corrupted by the ...
Page 79
... Deity corporeal by this expression , and that it gave occasion to the error of the Stoics , who believed the Divine Essence an ethereal matter ; but the con- trary is evident by the definitions which those two philosophers give of the ...
... Deity corporeal by this expression , and that it gave occasion to the error of the Stoics , who believed the Divine Essence an ethereal matter ; but the con- trary is evident by the definitions which those two philosophers give of the ...
Page 81
... Deity , but they considered the god My- thras and the goddess Mythra , sometimes as two em- anations from his substance , and at other times as the first productions of his power . Every day was sacred to the great Oromazes , because he ...
... Deity , but they considered the god My- thras and the goddess Mythra , sometimes as two em- anations from his substance , and at other times as the first productions of his power . Every day was sacred to the great Oromazes , because he ...
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Adonis adore Amasis Amenophis Anaximander ancient Apries Araspes Arimanius Astyages Athenians Athens Babylon beauty body Cambyses Cassandana corrupted court crimes Cyaxares Cyrus Cyrus's death Deity discourse divine doctrine earth Ecbatana Ecnibal Egypt Egyptians endeavored eternal evil eyes father friendship genii genius give goddess gods Greece Greeks happy heart heaven Hebrew hero Hystaspes ideas imagination immense infinite intelligences Jupiter king Lacedemon laws liberty lived Lycurgus magi Mandane manner matter Medes Megacles ment mind misfortunes mortal motion Mythras Nabonassar Nabuchodonosor nations nature never noble oracles Oromazes Osiris passions perceived perfect Periander Persia philosophers Pisistratus Plato pleasure Plutarch prince of Persia prince's principle Procles punish pure Pythagoras reason reign religion says Selima sentiments shew Solon soon soul sovereign Spartans spirits substance suffer supreme temple thing thought throne tion troops truth Typhon universe Urania virtue wisdom young prince Zoroaster
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Page 338 - How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die, "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 305 - I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways : he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Page 304 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron ; and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. ; ' For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I hava even called thee by thy name; I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
Page 318 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Page 315 - Almighty, the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of His goodness...
Page 305 - That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light and create darkness : I make peace, and create evil : I the Lord do all these things.
Page 379 - Arimanius and his genii broke through this shining egg, and immediately evil was blended and confounded with good. But there will come a time appointed by fate, when Arimanius will be entirely destroyed and extirpated ; the earth will change its form, and become plain and even ; and happy men will have only one and the same life, language and government.
Page 294 - It was this Messiah who conversed with the patriarchs under a human form: it was he who appeared to Moses upon the Holy Mount : it was he who spoke to the prophets under a visible appearance ; and it is he who will at last come in triumph upon the clouds to restore the universe to its primitive splendour and felicity.
Page 337 - He is the universal spirit that pervades and diffuseth itself over all nature. All beings receive their life from Him. There is but one only God, who is not, as some are apt to imagine, seated above the world, beyond the orb of the universe ; but being Himself all in all, He sees all the beings that fill His immensity, the only principle, the light of Heaven, the Father of all. He produces everything, He orders and disposes everything ; He is the reason, the life, and the motion of all being.
Page 324 - Wisdom or Rule of his operation ; Orus the first production of his Power , the model or plan by which he produced every thing , or the archetype of the world.