A comparison of all religions, fifth ed |
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Términos y frases comunes
Ahriman ancient ancient Egypt Animism beauty belief belong body Brahmanism Buddha Buddhism Bushmen called Catholic cause character childlike races Christ Christianity church conception Confucius creation Creator death declares Deity Ditheism divine doctrine earth Egypt Egyptian essential eternal ethnic religions Euthydemus evil existence fact faith Father gods Greece Greek heart heaven Herodotus highest Hindu holy human idea idolatry immortality India infinite inspiration intelligence Jesus Judaism ligion live mankind mind Mohammedanism Monotheism moral Moses nations nature origin Ormazd Osiris outward Pantheism perfect Persia philosophers Plato Polytheism pray prayer primitive races prophets religious Rig-Veda ritual Roman Rome sacred books sacrifices Sanskrit says soul speak spirit supernatural Supreme teaching temples tendency thee theism things thou thought thousand tion transmigration triad tribes truth ture unity universe vast Vedas Vedic hymns virtues whole worship wrong Zend-Avesta Zoroaster
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 23 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.
Página 262 - the Koran appears declamatory, monotonous, tedious." Its merit is in its intense earnestness, reflecting the various experiences of its author. It certainly has exercised a great fascination over the mind of the East. Comparing it with the Bible it may be said that the Koran lays claim to a verbal mechanical inspiration, alike in every part; the Bible, as is now generally recognized, makes no such claim. The Koran is incapable of being translated and retaining its beauty; the Bible loses little...
Página 352 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 109 - 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...
Página 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.
Página 375 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord ; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people ; and they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord ; for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.