Researches Into the Nature and Affinity of Ancient and Hindu MythologyLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831 - 494 pagine |
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admitted adoration amongst ancient writers antiquity appear ascribed Asia Asiatic Asuras attributes authority Brahma Buddha chap character Colebrooke concluded consequently considered creation Cudworth Daksha deities Diodorus Siculus divine hypostases doctrine earth Egypt Egyptian evident evince existence Gauri Gautama Getæ goddess gods Grecian Greece Greeks heaven hence Herodotus Hesiod Hindu mythology Hindu religion holy Homer hypostases idolatry improbable India Indra Isis Jamblichus Jupiter justly Kali Yug Khand language legend lingam lord mankind manner moon names Narayana nations nature Nephthys object observed occur opinion origin Orpheus Osiris Parvati passage Pelasgi Plutarch polytheism preserved principles produced Puran quæ Rama reason religious remarks rendered respecting Rudra sacred sacrifice Sanscrit Scythians sect seems self-existent Shiva Skanda slightest soul supposed Supreme system of polytheism thee things thou Thrace Thracians three worlds universe Upanishads Vedas Vishnu words worship δε εν μεν τε
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Pagina 177 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Pagina 260 - HE, whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even HE, the soul of all beings, whom no being can comprehend, shone forth in person.
Pagina 123 - And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Pagina 3 - We have the ideas of Matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know whether any mere material being thinks or no; it being impossible for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether Omnipotency has not given to some Systems of matter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think...
Pagina 392 - Bellum, quod pugnat utroque, sanguineaque manu crepitantia concutit arma, vivitur ex rapto : non hospes ab hospite tutus, non socer a genero ; fratrum quoque gratia rara est. imminet exitio vir conjugis, illa mariti ; lurida terribiles miscent aconita novercae ; filius ante diem patrios inquirit in annos.
Pagina 349 - Ethereal Sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defy th
Pagina 164 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, 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...
Pagina xv - God. —Though God has given us no innate ideas of himself; though he has stamped no original characters on our minds, wherein we may read his being; yet having furnished us with those faculties our minds are endowed with, he hath not left himself without witness: since we have sense, perception, and reason, and cannot want a clear proof of him, as long as we carry ourselves about us.
Pagina 84 - Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altae deerat adhuc et quod dominari in cetera posset: natus homo est, sive hunc divino semine fecit ille opifex rerum, mundi melioris origo, sive recens tellus seductaque nuper ab alto aethere cognati retinebat semina caeli. quam satus lapeto, mixtam pluvialibus undis, finxit in effigiem moderantum cuncta deorum...
Pagina 83 - Amphitrite. utque erat et tellus illic et pontus et aer, sic erat instabilis tellus, innabilis unda, lucis egens aer: nulli sua forma manebat, obstabatque aliis aliud, quia corpore in uno frigida pugnabant calidis, umentia siccis, mollia cum duris, sine pondere habentia pondus.