Asiatic Studies, Religious and SocialJ. Murray, 1884 - 306 pàgines |
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Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social, First Series, Volum 2 Sir Alfred C. Lyall Visualització completa - 1899 |
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Pàgina 17 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland. With a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the "Thirty Years
Pàgina 17 - Christianity, from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire.
Pàgina 4 - Life and Times of Titian, with some Account of his Family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo. 21«.
Pàgina 210 - His forefathers have reigned for generations, our forefathers were their ministers and advisers, and whatever was performed was by the collective wisdom of the council of our Chiefs.
Pàgina 305 - Notices of the Historic Persons buried in the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula, in the Tower of London, with an account of the discovery of the supposed remains of Queen Anne Boleyn.
Pàgina 30 - If we want to know whither the human mind, though endowed with the natural consciousness of a divine power, is driven necessarily and inevitably by the irresistible force of language as applied to supernatural and abstract ideas, we must read the Veda ; and if we want to tell the Hindus what they are worshipping — mere names of natural phenomena, gradually obscured, personified, and deified— we must make them read the Veda. It was a mistake of the early Fathers to treat the heathen gods as demons...
Pàgina 246 - I am quite ready to take the oriental learning at the valuation of the orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.
Pàgina 102 - Government of Bengal, in 1871-72, wrote: " It is a great mistake to suppose that the Hindu religion is not proselytising; the system of castes gives room for the introduction of any number of outsiders. So long as people do not interfere with existing castes, they may form a new caste and call themselves Hindus; and the Brahmans are always ready to receive all who will submit to them and pay them. The process of manufacturing Rajputs from ambitious aborigines goes on before our eyes.
Pàgina 64 - I am now convinced, that no great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Pàgina 72 - In the darkness of time, in the deeps of the years, in the changes of things, Ye shall sleep as a slain man sleeps, and the world shall forget you for kings.