The land of the Veda: India briefly described in some of its aspects, including the substance of a course of lectures1854 |
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... to us features not less remarkable . Its primitive manners ; its original civilization ; its refined lan- guages ; its civil and religious institutions ; its mythological B its and legendary traditions ; its dramatic and heroic poems.
... to us features not less remarkable . Its primitive manners ; its original civilization ; its refined lan- guages ; its civil and religious institutions ; its mythological B its and legendary traditions ; its dramatic and heroic poems.
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... remarkable for its magnitude and fertility ; it is 1,200 miles in length and 600 miles in breadth . This magnificent territory within its ample sweep sustains a popu- lation nearly twice as numerous as is to be found in the whole of ...
... remarkable for its magnitude and fertility ; it is 1,200 miles in length and 600 miles in breadth . This magnificent territory within its ample sweep sustains a popu- lation nearly twice as numerous as is to be found in the whole of ...
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... remarkable , frequently forming graceful festoons from the branches of the lofty denizens of the forest . The oleander and the gloriosa superba grow wild in the open country . The beautiful lotus , so rich in its tints and delicate in ...
... remarkable , frequently forming graceful festoons from the branches of the lofty denizens of the forest . The oleander and the gloriosa superba grow wild in the open country . The beautiful lotus , so rich in its tints and delicate in ...
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... remarkable circumstance occurred not many years back , at an elephant hunt , in the district of Coimbatore , one of the provinces of Southern India . On enclosing a number of elephants in a ring fence , it was discovered that one of ...
... remarkable circumstance occurred not many years back , at an elephant hunt , in the district of Coimbatore , one of the provinces of Southern India . On enclosing a number of elephants in a ring fence , it was discovered that one of ...
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... remarkable that the same undeviating result attended it ; wealth , luxury , splendour , were its certain con- sequents . In the course of events , as civilization advanced westward , the jewels , the spices , and the precious fabrics of ...
... remarkable that the same undeviating result attended it ; wealth , luxury , splendour , were its certain con- sequents . In the course of events , as civilization advanced westward , the jewels , the spices , and the precious fabrics of ...
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Aborigines ancient appear attained beautiful Bengal Bishop Boora Brahmans Budha Calcutta called ceremonies Ceylon chaplain character Christ Christian Christianity in India Church Missionary Society civil connected connexion deity demon distinguished divine doctrines earth English eternal European evil existence faith favour festivals goddess gods Gospel heathen heaven Hindu female Hinduism holy honour human India and Ceylon influence institution Jesuits Khonds knowledge labours language literature Madras Mahabharat ment mind Mission missionaries moral nations native nature numerous object observed occasion origin Pantheism peculiar Pennu period person Portuguese possessed practice present priest principle promote provinces Ramayana Ravana reference regard relation religion religious remarkable respect rites sacred sacrifice Sanscrit says seen sentiments Shánárs shrine Siva Society soul spirit Sudra superstition Supreme Tamil Tamil language Tari temples things tion Tranquebar tribes truth various Vedas veneration victim village Vishnu whilst worship writers Yudhisthira
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Page 492 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him...
Page 493 - He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me : and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Page 508 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ : that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand 'fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Page 413 - Well done, good and faithful servants, " enter ye into the joy of your Lord.
Page 37 - So much of any law or usage now in force within the territories subject to the government of the East India Company as inflicts on any person forfeiture of rights or property, or may be held in any way to impair 500 or affect any right of inheritance, by reason of his or her renouncing, or having been excluded from the communion of any religion, or being deprived of caste...
Page 446 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 492 - Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing...
Page 54 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 492 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for we are all one in Christ Jesus.
Page 474 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.