Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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... scholar , as a pupil of Gottfried Hermann , Haupt , Westermann , Nobbe , and Stallbaum . These were great names at the time , and excellent teachers ; but even before I had taken my degree , I was tempted away by philosophy , attending ...
... scholar , as a pupil of Gottfried Hermann , Haupt , Westermann , Nobbe , and Stallbaum . These were great names at the time , and excellent teachers ; but even before I had taken my degree , I was tempted away by philosophy , attending ...
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... scholars in Europe . New clouds , however , were then gathering on my horizon . The Imperial Academy of St. Peters- burg , even at that time deeply interested in Indian literature , had voted large funds for bringing out an edition of ...
... scholars in Europe . New clouds , however , were then gathering on my horizon . The Imperial Academy of St. Peters- burg , even at that time deeply interested in Indian literature , had voted large funds for bringing out an edition of ...
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... scholar . The one scholar in Germany who by his lexicographic labours would seem to have been best qualified for that task , Professor Roth , declared honestly that a translation of the Veda is a task not for this , but for the next ...
... scholar . The one scholar in Germany who by his lexicographic labours would seem to have been best qualified for that task , Professor Roth , declared honestly that a translation of the Veda is a task not for this , but for the next ...
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... scholars in Europe and India , and we began to publish a series of translations of the Sacred Books of the East , which by this time amounts to thirty volumes , and will ultimately com- prise forty - eight . While engaged in conducting ...
... scholars in Europe and India , and we began to publish a series of translations of the Sacred Books of the East , which by this time amounts to thirty volumes , and will ultimately com- prise forty - eight . While engaged in conducting ...
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... scholar , has made himself master of Hebrew , and has not shrunk from studying Sanskrit , Zend , Hierogly- phics and Cuneiform Inscriptions , before he ventured on his dangerous voyage of discovery . In spite of all drawbacks , I can ...
... scholar , has made himself master of Hebrew , and has not shrunk from studying Sanskrit , Zend , Hierogly- phics and Cuneiform Inscriptions , before he ventured on his dangerous voyage of discovery . In spite of all drawbacks , I can ...
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Page 111 - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
Page 145 - to express the Infinite ; not the Infinite as the result of a long process of abstract reasoning, but the visible Infinite, visible by the naked eye, the endless expanse beyond the earth, beyond the clouds, beyond the sky. That was called A-diti, the un-bound, the unbounded ; one might almost say, but for fear of misunderstandings,
Page 2 - of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that, if reveal'd. They would by other men be met With blank indifference, or with blame reprov'd : I knew they lived and mov'd Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest Of men, and alien to themselves.
Page 609 - 6d, . . , The earliest philosophical and religious poem of India, It has been paraphrased in Arnold's 'Song Celestial! VOL. X. The Dhammapada, Translated from Pali by F. MAX MULLER; and The Sutta-Nipata, Translated from Pali by V. FAUSBOLL ; being Canonical Books of the Buddhists. 8vo., cloth,
Page 531 - Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country ; for I am the Lord your God V