A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos: Including a Minute Description of Their Manners and Customs, and Translations from Their Principal Works, Volum 1Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen, 1822 - 1202 pàgines |
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Pàgina xxviii
... priests are permitted to peruse them , or even to hear them read . These books then , having regulated the speculations of the wisest sages of nected with splendid and fascinating ceremonies , including music and xxviii PREFACE .
... priests are permitted to peruse them , or even to hear them read . These books then , having regulated the speculations of the wisest sages of nected with splendid and fascinating ceremonies , including music and xxviii PREFACE .
Pàgina xxx
... priests , services , and the profound homage of one hundred millions , worshipping at these temples , adoring these gods , reverencing and receiving religion from the lips of these priests , and performing with enthusiasm the rites of ...
... priests , services , and the profound homage of one hundred millions , worshipping at these temples , adoring these gods , reverencing and receiving religion from the lips of these priests , and performing with enthusiasm the rites of ...
Pàgina xxxvi
... , and pride— whose priests and bramhuns endeavour to copy these abominable examples - and whose very institutions are the hotbeds of impurity ? Where , in such a state of universal corruption - the tem xxxvi PREFACE .
... , and pride— whose priests and bramhuns endeavour to copy these abominable examples - and whose very institutions are the hotbeds of impurity ? Where , in such a state of universal corruption - the tem xxxvi PREFACE .
Pàgina xxxvii
... priests , and the whole body of his countrymen , and when the very services in his temple present the most fascinating temptations to impurity ? Impurity and cruelty have been , in all ages , the prominent features of every form of ...
... priests , and the whole body of his countrymen , and when the very services in his temple present the most fascinating temptations to impurity ? Impurity and cruelty have been , in all ages , the prominent features of every form of ...
Pàgina xliii
... priests of idolatry in In- dia , that they can persuade a man to inflict on himself more dreadful tortures than the savage scalping American Indian inflicts on his enemies . And this is British India ! There are three modes in which the ...
... priests of idolatry in In- dia , that they can persuade a man to inflict on himself more dreadful tortures than the savage scalping American Indian inflicts on his enemies . And this is British India ! There are three modes in which the ...
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A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos ..., Volum 1 William Ward Visualització de fragments - 1970 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina cxxxii - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Pàgina lxxxi - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Pàgina cxxxiii - For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries...
Pàgina 121 - All the persons employed now lighted their lamps, and ran with them in their hands to fill up their stations in the procession. Some of them had lost their lights and were unprepared, but it was then too late to seek them, and the cavalcade moved forward to the house of the bride, at which place the company entered a large and splendidly illuminated area before the house, covered with an awning, where a great multitude of friends, dressed in their best apparel, were seated upon mats. The bridegroom...
Pàgina cxxxii - Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah ; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein...
Pàgina cxxxii - Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers (namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth...
Pàgina cxxxiii - I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse : therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed...
Pàgina cxxxiii - He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son ; but the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Pàgina 102 - The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low ; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
Pàgina cxxxii - And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.