India: what Can it Teach Us?: A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the University of CambridgeFunk & Wagnalls, 1883 - 282 pages |
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Agni ancestors ancient Aryan Authorised Version believe Brahmans Buddhist called character criticisms Devas doubt Dyaus England English error expression fact father feel fire give gods grammar Greek Heaven and Earth highest Hindus History of India human idea India Indian Civil Service Indra Indus king language Latin Lectures letters light living Manu Matt meaning Megasthenes mind mythology native nature never originally Parganya passage Perkuno Persian Pitris plural primitive pronouns Purânas race rain religion religious Revised Version Rig-Veda rivers rule sacred sacrifices Sanday Sanskrit literature scholars seems sense sentence Sindhu singular speak Srâddha strange subjunctive mood Sûtras teach tell Testament things thou thought tion translation true truth Upanishads Varuna Veda Vedic hymns Vedic literature Vedic poets Vedic religion verb verse village WASHINGTON MOON whole word worship writing written
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Page 63 - Then Peter said unto her ; How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord ? Behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
Page 37 - Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Page 9 - And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Page 29 - And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Page 10 - Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
Page 63 - For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.
Page 24 - If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant — 1 should point to India.
Page 198 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Page 127 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized...
Page 63 - Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees; and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.