Natural ReligionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1889 - 608 pages |
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Friedrich Max Müller. Vedic literature . I have never been able to recover that translation , and it was not till 1879 that I published a new , and , I hope , more accurate translation of these theosophic treatises , in my Sacred Books ...
Friedrich Max Müller. Vedic literature . I have never been able to recover that translation , and it was not till 1879 that I published a new , and , I hope , more accurate translation of these theosophic treatises , in my Sacred Books ...
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... never approach one another , as far as we can follow their history . But even where an etymology is unassailable on phonetic and historical grounds , it can never give us more than the first starting - point of a word . It may teach us ...
... never approach one another , as far as we can follow their history . But even where an etymology is unassailable on phonetic and historical grounds , it can never give us more than the first starting - point of a word . It may teach us ...
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... never used in the sense of binding or holding back . In that sense we should have expected obligatio , or possibly obligio , but not religio . Cicero's etymology is therefore decidedly preferable , as more in accordance with Latin idiom ...
... never used in the sense of binding or holding back . In that sense we should have expected obligatio , or possibly obligio , but not religio . Cicero's etymology is therefore decidedly preferable , as more in accordance with Latin idiom ...
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... never has that meaning . " Thus ends the biography of the word religio , so long as it lived its natural life , unchequered by technical definition . We can clearly see that what the Romans expressed by religio was chiefly the moral or ...
... never has that meaning . " Thus ends the biography of the word religio , so long as it lived its natural life , unchequered by technical definition . We can clearly see that what the Romans expressed by religio was chiefly the moral or ...
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... never have conveyed to Cato the idea of his knowledge of Jupiter , Mars , or Vesta , and the duties he owed to them , but rather that of ancient Roman piety . There is a well - known verse by Schiller : ' Which religion I have ? There ...
... never have conveyed to Cato the idea of his knowledge of Jupiter , Mars , or Vesta , and the duties he owed to them , but rather that of ancient Roman piety . There is a well - known verse by Schiller : ' Which religion I have ? There ...
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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