Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 |
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Common terms and phrases
Æsir Ahriman ancient animals appears Arabs Aryan Asia Avesta body Brahmanism Buddha Buddhism Bunsen called Catholic century character China Chinese Christ Christianity Church Confucius death deities divine doctrine earth Egypt Egyptian eternal Europe evil existence faith father Feast Fravashis gilt top goddess gods Greece Greek heaven Herodotus Hindoo holy human hundred hymns idea India infinite Islam Jesus Jewish Jews Judaism Jupiter king Kneph living Lord mankind Max Müller mind Mohammed Mohammedan monotheism moral Moses Müller nations nature Nirvana Njörd original Ormazd Osiris pantheism Pelasgians Persian philosophy polytheism prayer priests prophet Protestantism pure race religion religious reverence Roman Rome sacred sacrifices Sanskrit says Semitic soul spirit supreme teach temple thee theology things thou thought thousand tianity tion translated tribes truth unity universe Vedas Vischnu whole words worship Zend Zend Avesta Zeus Zoroaster
Popular passages
Page 204 - Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Page 308 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 412 - For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward...
Page 424 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page 419 - After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do : and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
Page 18 - Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God." And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?
Page 305 - ... by some louder noise, but every beast returned to his own nature : wherein is aptly described the nature and condition of men ; who are full of savage and unreclaimed desires, of profit, of lust, of revenge, which as long as they give ear to precepts, to laws, to religion, sweetly touched with eloquence and persuasion of books, of sermons, of harangues, so long is society and peace maintained ; but if these instruments be silent, or that sedition and tumult make them not audible, all things dissolve...
Page 428 - And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
Page 345 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Page 115 - I AM THAT I AM; Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: I AM hath sent me unto you...