 | 1825 - 806 pages
...and unnatural senses, are disgusting. Sir William Jones has well remarked of the Hindoo race, that " it never seems to have entered the heads of the legislators or people, that anything natural could be offensively obscene ; a singularity which pervades all their writings and... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1824 - 336 pages
...(says Tacitus) in the dark." The reason appears too clearly in the temples and paintings of Hindustan, where it never seems to have entered the heads of...conversation, but is no proof of depravity in their morals. Both Plato and Cicero speak of Eros or the Heavenly Cupid, as the son of Venus and Jupiter; which proves,... | |
 | 1825 - 810 pages
...and unnatural senses, are disgusting. Sir William Jones has well remarked of the Hindoo race, that " it never seems to have entered the heads of the legislators or people, that anything natural could be offensively obscene ; a singularity which pervades all their writings and... | |
 | Vans Kennedy - 1831 - 666 pages
...(says Tacitus) in the dark. The reason appears too clearly in the temples and paintings of Hindustan, where it never seems to have entered the heads of...that any thing natural could be offensively obscene. * But the lingam is formed of stone, and consists of a base three or four feet high, the top of which... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1832 - 1060 pages
...the dark.' — The reason, however, appears too clearly in the temples and paintings of Hindustan ; where it never seems to have entered the heads of the legislators or people that ni) y thing natural could be offensively obscene; a singularity which pervades all their writings and... | |
 | Ephraim George Squier - 1851 - 278 pages
...observes, " that it never seems to have entered the heads of the legislators or people, that anything natural could be offensively obscene ; a singularity...conversation, but is no proof of depravity in their morals."t Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, the sacred Trimurti of the Hindus, allegorically represent the... | |
 | Ephraim George Squier - 1851 - 294 pages
...them an impure origin.* Sir William Jones, alluding to the Phallic symbol of India, observes, " that it never seems to have entered the heads of the legislators or people, that anything natural could be offensively obscene ; a singularity which pervades all their writings and... | |
 | Anthropological Society of London - 1866 - 530 pages
...says, "It seems never to have entered into the heads of the Hindu legislators and people, that anything natural could be offensively obscene, — a singularity which pervades all their writings, but is no proof of the depravity of their morals : hence the worship of the Linga by the followers... | |
 | John Patterson Lundy - 1876 - 540 pages
...Tacitus, "in the dark;" the reason appears too clearly in the temples and paintings of Hindustan ; where it never seems to have entered the heads of the legislators or people that anything natural could be offensively obscene ; a singularity which pervades all their writings and... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - 1880 - 980 pages
...Jones remarks: 'It never seems to have entered the heads of Hindoo legislators or people that anything natural could be offensively obscene ; a singularity...their writings and conversation. but is no proof of the depravity of their morals.'" HINDOO CASTES. The division of society into castes in Hindostan is... | |
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... has been sanctified and divinized to a greater extent than in any other part of the world. "It seems never to have entered into the heads of the Hindu legislators," said Sir William Jones long since (Works, vol. 
