 ... teach in public a religion, in which, in supposed compliance with the infirmities and passions of human nature, the deity is brought more to a level with our prejudices and wants. The incomprehensible attributes ascribed to him are invested with sensible...  Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay - Page 199by Literary Society of Bombay - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Asia - 1820 - 648 pages
...quality, eternal, unchangeable, and occupying all space ; but they carefully confine these doctrine« to their own schools, as dangerous, and teach in public...prejudices and wants: the incomprehensible attributes assigned to him are invested with sensible and even human forms. The mind, lost in meditation on the... | |
 | Charles Coleman - Asia - 1832 - 514 pages
...occupying all space, they have carefully confined their doctrines to their own schools, and have taught in public a religion, in which, in supposed compliance...infirmities and passions of human nature, the Deity has been brought more to a level with our own prejudices and wants ; and the incomprehensible attributes... | |
 | Robert Elliot - 1833 - 356 pages
...adore one God without form or quality — eternal, unchangeable, and occupying all space ; but they confine these doctrines to their own schools, as dangerous,...invested with sensible, and even human, forms. " The religion of the Boodhists differs very greatly from that of the Brahmins : as, in the latter, God is... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - Christianity - 1840 - 498 pages
...beautiful anthropomorphism of the Greeks, of which the Homeric poetry, from its extensive and lasting in supposed compliance with the infirmities and passions...and even human forms. The mind, lost in meditation, and fatigued in the pursuit of something, which, being divested of all sensible qualities, suffers... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 538 pages
...beautiful anthropomorphism of the Greeks, of which the Homeric poetry, from its extensive and lasting in supposed compliance with the infirmities and passions...and even human forms. The mind, lost in meditation, and fatigued in the pursuit of something, which, being divested of all sensible qualities, suffers... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - Church history - 1840 - 494 pages
...beautiful anthropomorphism of the Greeks, of which the Homeric poetry, from its extensive and lasting in supposed compliance with the infirmities and passions...and even human forms. The mind, lost in meditation, and fatigued in the pursuit of something, which, being divested of all sensible qualities, suffers... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - India - 1848 - 372 pages
...occupying all space, they have carefully confined their doctrines to their own schools, and have taught in public a religion, in which, in supposed compliance...infirmities and passions of human nature, the Deity has been brought more to a level with our own prejudices and wants; and the incomprehensible attributes... | |
 | 1849 - 736 pages
...and adore one God, without form or quality, eternal, unchangeable, and occupying all space; yet they teach in public a religion in which, in supposed compliance...infirmities and passions of human nature, the Deity has been brought more to a level with our own prejudices and wants, and the incomprehensible attributes... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 pages
...and adore one God, without form or quality, eternal, unchangeable, and occupying all space ; yet they teach in public a religion in which, in supposed compliance...the infirmities and passions of human nature, the Uc'itv hiid been brought more to a level with our own prejudices and wants, and the incomprehensible... | |
 | Ephraim George Squier - History - 1851 - 294 pages
...and adore one God, without form or quality, eternal, unchangeable, and occupying all space ; yet they teach in public a religion in which, in supposed compliance...infirmities and passions of human nature, the Deity has been brought more to a level with our own prejudices and wants, and the incomprehensible attributes... | |
| |
