A comparison of all religions. [22d impression, c1888Houghton, Mifflin, 1883 |
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Ahriman ancient ancient Egypt Animism appears beauty believe belong body Brahmanism Buddha Buddhism called Catholic cause character childlike races Christ Christianity church Confucius creation Creator darkness death declares Deity Ditheism divine doctrine earth Egypt Egyptian essential eternal ethnic religions Euthydemus evil existence exorcists fact faith Father gods Greece Greek heart heaven Hibbert Lectures Hindu holy human idea idolatry immortality India infinite inspiration Jesus Judaism Koran ligion live mankind mind Mohammed Mohammedanism Monotheism moral Moses nations nature origin Ormazd Osiris outward Pantheism perfect Persia philosophers Plato Polytheism prayer priests primitive prophets religious ritual Roman Rome ruler sacred books sacrifices Sanskrit says seen sense soul speak spirit supernatural Supreme teaching temples tendency Testament thee theism things thou thought tion transmigration triad tribes truth ture unity universe vast Vedas Vedic hymns whole worship wrong Zoroaster
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Page 345 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 23 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 67 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 256 - Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone. And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye; For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat, These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass.
Page xv - Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis,
Page 147 - 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...
Page 255 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page 372 - ... final ruin ; — all this I liken to dry dead fuel, waiting for the lightning out of Heaven that shall kindle it. The great man, with his free force direct out of God's own hand, is the lightning.
Page 262 - I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Page 263 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...