 | Henry Moses - 1750 - 314 pages
...disperse that cloud of more than Egyptian darkness, which for so many ages had confined their view. . . . When they cease to consider Mount Meru as twenty thousand...open to rational views on the subject of religion." CHAPTER VIII. " The moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light,... | |
 | William Beloe, Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, William Rowe Lyall, Robert Nares - 1823 - 700 pages
...knowledge. It is imagined, as Mr. H. Murray observes, in his historical account of Discoveries and Travels, that even to correct their extravagant ideas on the...our holy faith. If the seed is not sown, the ground is at least prepared for it. This measure is as yet only in progress, nor has there been time to estimate... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1826 - 624 pages
...writer, speaking on this subject, has well observed, ' when they cease to consider Mount Meru as 20,000 miles high, and the world as a flower, of which India...open to rational views on the subject of religion.' The well known character of the present Bishop of Calcutta for zeal in every good cause, unaffected... | |
 | Henry Moses - 1853 - 370 pages
...disperse that cloud of more than Egyptian darkness, which, for so many ages, has confined their view. When they cease to consider Mount Meru as twenty thousand...open to rational views on the subject of religion." CHAPTEE VIII. " The moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1853 - 718 pages
...which for so many ages has confined their view. . . . When they cease to consider Mount Meru as 20,000 miles high, and the world as a flower, of which India...open to rational views on the subject of religion." * * ' Quarterly Review,' No. Ixv. Read also Ainslie (Whitelaw), ' Historical Sketch of Christianity... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1853 - 672 pages
...consider Mount Meru as 20,000 miles high, and thf world as a flower, of which India is the cup, and othei countries the leaves, their minds may become more...open to rational views on the subject of religion." * n * ' Quarterly Review,' No. Ijv. Read also Ainslie (Whitelaw), ' Historical Sketch of Christianity!!... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1873 - 698 pages
...which for so many ages has confined their view. . . . When they cease to consider Mount Meru as 20,000 miles high, and the world as a flower, of which India...open to rational views on the subject of religion."* * ' Quarterly Review,' No. Ixv. Read also Ainslie (Whitelaw), ' Historical Sketch of Christianity in... | |
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A general knowledge of history or geography will at once disperse that cloud of more than Egyptian darkness, which for so many ages has confined their view. . . . When they cease to consider Mount Meru as 20,000 miles high, and the world as a flower,... 