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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... give the best answer he can to the one , and to acquaint the reader with what he has done to correct the other . The most general defect in the former editions , is the inaction of Cyrus , who through the whole course of his travels has ...
... give the best answer he can to the one , and to acquaint the reader with what he has done to correct the other . The most general defect in the former editions , is the inaction of Cyrus , who through the whole course of his travels has ...
Page vi
... gives a view of the political state of Asia in Cyrus's time . In the second book the author had not assigned a proper motive for Cyrus's journey to see Zoroaster ; the occasion of it at present is this : the Prince of Persia begins to ...
... gives a view of the political state of Asia in Cyrus's time . In the second book the author had not assigned a proper motive for Cyrus's journey to see Zoroaster ; the occasion of it at present is this : the Prince of Persia begins to ...
Page vii
... give a lustre to his heroes , but the author had exceeded the liberty tak- en by the Latin poet . To correct this fault , he has re- lated in his fourth book the war between the Lacede- monians and Tegeans , mentioned by Herodotus , and ...
... give a lustre to his heroes , but the author had exceeded the liberty tak- en by the Latin poet . To correct this fault , he has re- lated in his fourth book the war between the Lacede- monians and Tegeans , mentioned by Herodotus , and ...
Page viii
... give more accuracy to the reasonings of Eleazar , and more strength to the discourse of Daniel ; the lat- ter proves the supernatural establishment of religion by the only proper method for it , that is to say , by a rela- tion of facts ...
... give more accuracy to the reasonings of Eleazar , and more strength to the discourse of Daniel ; the lat- ter proves the supernatural establishment of religion by the only proper method for it , that is to say , by a rela- tion of facts ...
Page ix
... give a solid answer , without changing any thing in his plan , are as follow . I. To begin with the least important of them , it has been objected , that the author is a plagiary , and that he has in several places transcribed whole ...
... give a solid answer , without changing any thing in his plan , are as follow . I. To begin with the least important of them , it has been objected , that the author is a plagiary , and that he has in several places transcribed whole ...
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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.