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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... Cyrus , who through the whole course of his travels has too much of the indolent philosopher , and too little of the hero , who was one day to be the con- queror of Asia . The nature of this work not requiring the action of an epic poem ...
... Cyrus , who through the whole course of his travels has too much of the indolent philosopher , and too little of the hero , who was one day to be the con- queror of Asia . The nature of this work not requiring the action of an epic poem ...
Page vi
... 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 entertain a contempt for religion , and in order ...
... 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 entertain a contempt for religion , and in order ...
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... Cyrus from the fol- lies of youth , by shewing him , not so much the sweets of love , as the bitter effects of it . As soon as he attains to a riper age , Cassandana dies , and the hero be- gins his travels . This history simply relates ...
... Cyrus from the fol- lies of youth , by shewing him , not so much the sweets of love , as the bitter effects of it . As soon as he attains to a riper age , Cassandana dies , and the hero be- gins his travels . This history simply relates ...
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... Cyrus , at twenty - five years of age , could not better employ his time during the interval of a profound peace , than by travelling into Egypt and Greece . It was necessary to prepare a prince who was to be one day the founder and the ...
... Cyrus , at twenty - five years of age , could not better employ his time during the interval of a profound peace , than by travelling into Egypt and Greece . It was necessary to prepare a prince who was to be one day the founder and the ...
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... Cyrus's time were fallen into a kind of atheism , like that of Spinoza ; Zoroaster , Hermes and Pythagoras adored one sole Deity , but they were deists ; Eleazar resembled the Socinians , who were for subjecting reli- gion to philosophy ...
... Cyrus's time were fallen into a kind of atheism , like that of Spinoza ; Zoroaster , Hermes and Pythagoras adored one sole Deity , but they were deists ; Eleazar resembled the Socinians , who were for subjecting reli- gion to philosophy ...
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Page 318 - Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 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 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 304 - I will loose the loins of kings, To open before him the two leaved gates; And the gates shall not be shut; 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...
Page 305 - I have made the earth, and created man upon it : I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Page 318 - Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah ; and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, he is the God which is in Jerusalem.
Page 339 - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
Page 305 - For Jacob, my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name. I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides me...
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 336 - 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...
Page 305 - 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.