 | 1798 - 542 pages
...calefaction, sensation, and muscular motion, is described by the Hindus as a fifth element endued with those very powers; and the Vedas abound with allusions to...which they chiefly ascribe to the Sun, thence called Alltya, or the sit tractor; a name designed by the mythologists to mean the child of the Goddess ADITI... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1806 - 402 pages
...reflection, and refraction of light; ELECTRICITY, calefaction, sensation, and muscular motion; and that the Vedas abound with allusions to a force universally attractive, which they ascribe chiefly to the SUN, thence called Aditya, the ATTRACTOR."* The mention of the doctrine of attraction... | |
 | Quintin Craufurd - 1817 - 416 pages
...calefaction, sensation, and muscular motion; is described by the Hindus as a fifth element, endued with those very powers, and the Vedas abound with allusions to...attractor, a name designed by the mythologists to represent the child of the goddess Aditi ; but the most wonderful passage on the theory of attraction... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1824 - 356 pages
...sensation, and muscular motion ; is described by the Hindus as a. fifth element, endned with those very powers ; and the Vedas abound with allusions...chiefly ascribe to the Sun. thence called Aditya, or the Altractor, a name designed by the mythologists to mean the Child of the Goddess Aditi; but the most... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1824 - 336 pages
...muscular motion; is described by theHindusa9a//Mefemen«,endued with those very powers; and the Vcrt;is abound with allusions to a force universally attractive,...chiefly ascribe to the Sun, thence called Aditya, or the Atiractor, a name designed by the mythologists to mean the Child of the Goddess Aditi; but the most... | |
 | Samuel Green (Baptist minister, Lion St. Chapel, Walworth.) - 1840 - 442 pages
...calefaction, sensation, and muscular motion, is described by the Hindus as a fifth element, endued with those very powers, and the Vedas abound with allusions to...a force universally attractive, which they chiefly attribute to the sun." The extension, therefore, of the Arabian victories over the eastern world, as... | |
 | Samuel Green - 1840 - 430 pages
...calefaction, sensation, and muscular motion, is described by the Hindus as a fifth element, endued with those very powers, and the Vedas abound with allusions to...a force universally attractive, which they chiefly attribute to the sun." The extension, therefore, of the Arabian victories over the eastern world, as... | |
 | Florian - 1841 - 308 pages
...calefaction, sensation, and muscular motion, is described by the Hindus as a fifth element, endued with those very powers ; and the Vedas abound with allusions...a force universally attractive, which they chiefly attribute to the sun." The extension, therefore, of the Arabian victories over the Eastern world, and... | |
 | John Porter Brown - 1868 - 432 pages
...calefaction, sensation, and muscular motion, is described by the Hindoos as a fifth element endowed with those very powers ; and the Vedas abound with allusions...the goddess Aditi ; but the most wonderful passage in the theory of attraction occurs in the charming allegorical poem of " Shirin and Ferhad, or the... | |
 | 1899 - 1074 pages
...muscular motion; is described by the Hindus as a fifth i'lemen-t, endued with those very powers ; nnd the Vedas abound with allusions to a force universally...chiefly ascribe to the Sun, thence called Aditya, or tho Atrractor." Of Sri Shankara's commentary upon the Yedanta, he says that ' it is not possible to... | |
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... spirit which he suspected to pervade natural bodies and lying concealed in them, to cause attraction and repulsion, the emission, reflection, and refraction of light, electricity, calefaction, sensation, and muscular motion, is described by the Hindus... 
