Oriental Historical Manuscripts, in the Tamil Language: Translated; with AnnotationsJ.C. Taylor, 1835 |
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... , that there are very many persons in the world , who run into the contrary extreme of judgment , inferring from the usual abstractedness of Protestant missionaries from such pursuits , their great inferiority to Roman Catholic XX .
... , that there are very many persons in the world , who run into the contrary extreme of judgment , inferring from the usual abstractedness of Protestant missionaries from such pursuits , their great inferiority to Roman Catholic XX .
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... infer , or conjecture , that Narasi - naicker , perhaps the son of Mathana - naicker , having prefaced his proceeding with a shew of religion , had interest sufficient to depose the three Pandions ; and that this was effected between ...
... infer , or conjecture , that Narasi - naicker , perhaps the son of Mathana - naicker , having prefaced his proceeding with a shew of religion , had interest sufficient to depose the three Pandions ; and that this was effected between ...
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... infer also , by the way , that the Pandions kept up no standing armies . Some other instances will occur in the sequel , proving that the god very benevolently covered over the pecca- dillos of his votaries , when a perversion of public ...
... infer also , by the way , that the Pandions kept up no standing armies . Some other instances will occur in the sequel , proving that the god very benevolently covered over the pecca- dillos of his votaries , when a perversion of public ...
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... infer , from the mode in which the Sera king is mentioned , that there did not exist so lasting or inveterate a hostility between the Sra , or Travancore , kings and the Pandions , as between the latter and the Soren , or Conjeveram ...
... infer , from the mode in which the Sera king is mentioned , that there did not exist so lasting or inveterate a hostility between the Sra , or Travancore , kings and the Pandions , as between the latter and the Soren , or Conjeveram ...
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... infer , but still of peculiar consequence ; not only from the magnitude of the subject in itself , but also from the value of all concurring testimonies in different countries to this point . That a general and not a partial deluge is ...
... infer , but still of peculiar consequence ; not only from the magnitude of the subject in itself , but also from the value of all concurring testimonies in different countries to this point . That a general and not a partial deluge is ...
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Page 160 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 160 - And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and
Page 160 - Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark : and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained...
Page 163 - Seth: 4 and the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: 5 and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Page 160 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 160 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Page 160 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Page 138 - The demon Hayagriva, having purloined the Vedas from the custody of Brahma, while he was reposing at the close of the sixth Manwantara, the whole race of men became corrupt, except the seven Rishis, and Satyavrata, who then reigned in Dravira, a maritime region to the south of Carnata. This prince was performing his ablutions in the river...
Page 138 - Then shalt thou take all medicinal herbs, ' " all the variety of seeds ; and, accompanied by seven saints, ' " encircled by pairs of all brute animals, thou shalt enter the ' '' spacious ark and continue in it, secure from the flood on ' " one immense ocean without light, except the radiance of '
Page 210 - ... a fortunate discovery, for which," he said, "he was first indebted to Mir Muhammed Hussain, one of the most intelligent Muselmans in India, and which has at once dissipated the cloud, and cast a gleam of light on the primeval history of Iran and of the human race, of which he had long despaired, and which could hardly have dawned from any other quarter " ; this was, he declared, " the rare and interesting tract on twelve different religions, entitled the Dabistan.