Christian Researches in Asia: With Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures Into the Oriental LanguagesT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814 - 310 pages |
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... priests and satellites of the idol , surround- ing his throne . I was told that there were about a hun- dred and twenty persons upon the car altogether . The idol is a block of wood , having a frightful visage painted black , with a ...
... priests and satellites of the idol , surround- ing his throne . I was told that there were about a hun- dred and twenty persons upon the car altogether . The idol is a block of wood , having a frightful visage painted black , with a ...
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... priest mounted the car in front of the idol , and pro- nounced his obscene stanzas in the ears of the people ; who responded at intervals in the same strain . These woman , and that the fleshy part of her leg had been torn off . There ...
... priest mounted the car in front of the idol , and pro- nounced his obscene stanzas in the ears of the people ; who responded at intervals in the same strain . These woman , and that the fleshy part of her leg had been torn off . There ...
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... priests who were to superintend the affairs of the Temple , or exercise a controul over its ministers and officers , or take the manage- ment of its funds , and that the exercise of the authority of the Government should extend only to ...
... priests who were to superintend the affairs of the Temple , or exercise a controul over its ministers and officers , or take the manage- ment of its funds , and that the exercise of the authority of the Government should extend only to ...
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... Priests ; and we think with much justice . The moral turpitude of the rites of Juggernaut is , in this way , excused by the people.- “ It is , ” say they , " the , sin of the Priests , not ours . " In Christian countries , also , there ...
... Priests ; and we think with much justice . The moral turpitude of the rites of Juggernaut is , in this way , excused by the people.- “ It is , ” say they , " the , sin of the Priests , not ours . " In Christian countries , also , there ...
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... Priest's office . * A Jarejah chief , by name HUTTAJEE , who had preserved his daughters , contrary to the custom , brought them to the British camp to be vaccinated . They were between six and eight years of age , but they wore turbans ...
... Priest's office . * A Jarejah chief , by name HUTTAJEE , who had preserved his daughters , contrary to the custom , brought them to the British camp to be vaccinated . They were between six and eight years of age , but they wore turbans ...
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Page 220 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations : and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Page 186 - Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
Page 222 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye ^- // my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, That her warfare is accomplished; that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
Page 296 - Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Page 216 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind...
Page 219 - And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
Page 220 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Page 193 - To reveal his son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen ; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 247 - Man ; the field is the world ; the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one ; the enemy that sowed them is the Devil ; the harvest is the end of the \vorld ; and the reapers are the angels.