Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology ..., Part 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1883 - 528 pages |
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Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology, Volume 1 James Freeman Clarke No preview available - 2015 |
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Ahriman ancient ancient Egypt Animism appears beauty belief belong body Brahmanism Buddha Buddhism Bushmen called Catholic cause chaos character childlike races Christ Christianity church conception Confucius creation Creator darkness death declares Deity Ditheism divine doctrine earth Egypt Egyptian essential eternal ethnic religions evil existence fact faith Father Fetich gods Greece Greek heaven Hindu holy human idea idolatry immortality India infinite inspiration intelligence Jesus Judaism ligion living lowest mankind mind missionary Mohammed Mohammedanism Monotheism moral Moses nations nature origin Ormazd Osiris outward Pantheism perfect Persia philosophers philosophic Theism Plato Polytheism prayer priests primitive prophet religious Rig-Veda Roman Rome ruler Sanskrit says soul speak spirit supernatural Supreme teaching temples tendency thee theism theory things thou thought thousand tion transmigration triad tribes truth ture unity universe vast Vedas Vedic hymns whole worship Zoroaster
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Page 345 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 23 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 256 - Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone. And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye; For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat, These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass.
Page 263 - ... as unknown, and yet well known ; as dying, and behold, we live ; as chastened, and not killed ; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich ; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 375 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord ; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people ; and they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord ; for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Page xv - Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis,
Page 147 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 255 - 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 250 - To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply ; Its choir the winds and waves — its organ thunder — Its dome the sky.
Page 372 - ... final ruin ; — all this I liken to dry dead fuel, waiting for the lightning out of Heaven that shall kindle it. The great man, with his free force direct out of God's own hand, is the lightning.