Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations Relative to the Ancient Geographical Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology, the Grand Code of Civil Laws, the Original Form of Government, the Widely-extended Commerce, and the Various Profound Literature, of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to The History of Hindostan, Upon a Comprehensive Scale ...The Author, 1794 - India |
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Page 775
... devotions . * It is there also afferted that the Roman miffionaries , arriving in those re- gions , found the people already in poffeffion of that fundamental doctrine of the true religion , which , among others , they came to impress ...
... devotions . * It is there also afferted that the Roman miffionaries , arriving in those re- gions , found the people already in poffeffion of that fundamental doctrine of the true religion , which , among others , they came to impress ...
Page 797
... devotion of the people , because as the Deity was every where prefent , and his nature exalted far above the reach of human comprehenfion , it was impoffible by any external image properly to represent him to the fenfes of men ...
... devotion of the people , because as the Deity was every where prefent , and his nature exalted far above the reach of human comprehenfion , it was impoffible by any external image properly to represent him to the fenfes of men ...
Page 807
... devotion of their ancestors , as either , on the one hand , to be plunged into the groffeft materialism , or , on the other , into the most complicated and multifarious idolatry . It is furely no small honour for Christianity to be able ...
... devotion of their ancestors , as either , on the one hand , to be plunged into the groffeft materialism , or , on the other , into the most complicated and multifarious idolatry . It is furely no small honour for Christianity to be able ...
Page 837
... naturally branches itself forth ; having , in the first place , investigated the nature of the mystic rites , cele- brated by this fuperftitious race in confecrated groves I groves and caverns ; their devotion , in every [ 837 ]
... naturally branches itself forth ; having , in the first place , investigated the nature of the mystic rites , cele- brated by this fuperftitious race in confecrated groves I groves and caverns ; their devotion , in every [ 837 ]
Page 838
... devotion , in every age , to the Sabian fuperftition , and veneration immemorially paid by them to the mundane elements , but principally to the all - pervading fire ; having confidered that religion , in a phyfical , mythological , and ...
... devotion , in every age , to the Sabian fuperftition , and veneration immemorially paid by them to the mundane elements , but principally to the all - pervading fire ; having confidered that religion , in a phyfical , mythological , and ...
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affertion Afia Afiatic alfo Almai alſo altar amidſt ancient antiquity Apuleius Arrian aſtoniſhment Ayeen Akbery Brahma brahmins ceremony Chineſe Chriſtian confecrated confidered cuſtom dæmons dance darkneſs defcended deity deſcribed devotion divine doctrine dreadful earth Egypt eſtabliſhed exiſtence facred facrifice fame fays fecond fect feſtivals feven fevere fhall fhould fince fire firft firſt folemn fome fometimes foul fpirits ftate ftone fubject fuch fufferings fuperftition fymbol heaven herſelf himſelf Hindoo hiſtory idol India Indian inftance inveſtigation itſelf laſt leaſt leſs Lingam Mithra moſt muſt myfteries obferved occafion paffage paffed paffions pagoda Parmenides penance penitents Perfia perfons Pfyche philofopher Plato poffible Pooja Porphyry prefent prieſts purpoſe Pythagoras reader reaſon repreſented reſpect rites Sabian Saniaffi ſcarcely Seeva ſeveral ſhall ſhe Sir William Jones ſome ſtate ſtill ſyſtem temple thefe themſelves theology theſe thofe thoſe thouſand throne tion tolahs univerfal uſe vafe vaſt Veefhnu whofe whoſe worſhip Yogee