The Progress of Religious Ideas: Through Successive Ages : in Three Volumes, כרך 1C. S. Francis & Company, 1855 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
altar Amun ancient animals beautiful believed body Bouddha Brahma Bramins burning called carried caste Christ colossal consecrated Crishna custom death deemed deities devoted divine doctrines earth Egypt Egyptian emblems ephod eternal Evil Spirits existence father festival fire goddess gods Greeks groves hands heaven Hebrew Heliopolis Herodotus Hesiod hieroglyphics High Priest Hindoo Hindostan holy honour human hundred idea immortal incarnation India Indra Israel Jupiter king Lamas Lamaseries laws learned light lived Lord Meroë mind Mithras moon mortal Moses Mysteries nations nature offered oracle Ormuzd Osiris Paradise performed Persia places Plato prayers priesthood priests prophets punishment purified pyramids religion religious ceremonies represented reverence Sacred Books sacrifices saints says sculptures sects serpent signifying sins Siva solemn sometimes soul stars statues stone supposed Supreme temple Thebes thee things Thoth thou thousand tion universe unto Vedas Vishnu women worship Zoroaster
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 404 - And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
עמוד ix - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
עמוד 421 - And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
עמוד 410 - When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
עמוד ix - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
עמוד 403 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
עמוד 408 - The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart...
עמוד 403 - 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...
עמוד 383 - And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
עמוד 436 - But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee ; how much less this house which I have built...