Pantheon you will look in vain for anything resembling those beautiful and majestic forms which stood in the shrines of ancient Greece. All is hideous, and grotesque, and ignoble. As this superstition is of all superstitions the most irrational, and of... From New York to Delhi - Page 439by Robert Bowne Minturn - 1858 - 488 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1861 - 1148 pages
...Hindu religion thus : " Through the whole Hindu Pantheon you will look in vain for anything resembling those beautiful and majestic forms, which stood in...grotesque, and ignoble. As this superstition is of all luperstitions the most irrational, and of all superstitions the most inelegant, so it it of all superstitions... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1861 - 992 pages
...Hindu religion thus : " Through the whole Hindu Pantheon you will look in vain for anything reBembling those beautiful and majestic forms, which stood in the shrines of ancient Greece. AH is hideous, grotesque, and ignoble. As this superstition is of all superstitions the most irrational,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 566 pages
...those beautiful and majestic forms which stood in the shrines of ancient Greece. All is hideous, and grotesque, and ignoble. As this superstition is of...superstitions the most immoral. Emblems of vice are THE GATES OF SOMNAUTH. 275 objects of public worship. Acts of vice are acts of public worship. The courtesans... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 582 pages
...art than to science. Through the whole Hindoo Pantheon you will look in vain for anything resembling those beautiful and majestic forms which stood in the shrines of ancient Greece. All is hideous, and grotesque, and ignoble. As this superstition is of all superstitions the most irrational, and of... | |
| David Oliver Allen - 1856 - 652 pages
...years in India: — " Through the whole Hindu Pantheon, you will look in vain for any thing resembling those beautiful and majestic forms which stood in...superstitions the most immoral. Emblems of vice are objects of public worship. Acts of vice are acts of public worship. The courtesans are as much a part... | |
| DAVID O.. ALLEN, D. D. - 1856 - 636 pages
...years in India : — " Through the whole Hindu Pantheon, you will look in vain for any thing resembling those beautiful and majestic forms which stood in...superstitions the most immoral. Emblems of vice are objects of public worship. Acts of vice are acts of public worship. The courtesans are as much a part... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 592 pages
...art than to science. Through the whole Hindoo Pantheon you will look in vain for anything resembling those beautiful and majestic forms which stood in the shrines of ancient Greece. All is hideous, and grotesque, and ignoble. Aa this superstition is of all superstitions the most irrational, and of... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [speeches]) - 1866 - 294 pages
...art than to science. Through the whole Hindoo Pantheon you will look in vain for anything resembling those beautiful and majestic forms which stood in the shrines of ancient Greece. All is hideous, and grotesque, and ignoble. As this superstition is of all superstitions the most irrational, and of... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 738 pages
...art than to science. Through the whole Hindoo Pantheon you will look in vain for anything resembling those beautiful and majestic forms which stood in the shrines of ancient Greece. All is hideons, and grotesque, and ignoble. As this superstition is of all superstitions the most irrational,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 760 pages
...art than to science. Through the whole Hindoo Pantheon you will look in vain for anything resembling those beautiful and majestic forms which stood in the shrines of ancient Greece. All is hideous, and grotesque, and ignoble. As this superstition is of all superstitions the most irrational, and of... | |
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