Interesting Historical Events, Relative to the Provinces of Bengal, and the Empire of Indostan: With a Seasonable Hint and Perswasive to the Honorable the Court of Directors of the East India Company. As Also the Mythology and Cosmogony, Fasts and Festivals of the Gentoo's, Followers of the Shastah. And a Dissertation on the Metempsychosis, Commonly, Though Erroneously, Called the Pythagorean Doctrine, Volym 3T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1771 |
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... first time , launch out into the ocean of hypothefis and fpeculation upon our own bottom . Difficult and hazardous as our courfe is , we will hope our voyage may not be unprofperous . We invoke no aid to lead us on our way , but that ...
... first time , launch out into the ocean of hypothefis and fpeculation upon our own bottom . Difficult and hazardous as our courfe is , we will hope our voyage may not be unprofperous . We invoke no aid to lead us on our way , but that ...
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... folly . - It is faid - they were the first who cultivated the arts and sciences : fuppofe it granted , were they the better men * Vid . Introduction to Part ii . from page 23. to 29 . for for it ? It is proved they were not , ( 12 )
... folly . - It is faid - they were the first who cultivated the arts and sciences : fuppofe it granted , were they the better men * Vid . Introduction to Part ii . from page 23. to 29 . for for it ? It is proved they were not , ( 12 )
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... potent , and powerful nation ( for fuch Indoftan was found to be at the first known inter- course with them ) fhould borrow a funda- mental , on which the whole fyftem of their most GO 3 most ancient worship hinged , from a few ( 15 )
... potent , and powerful nation ( for fuch Indoftan was found to be at the first known inter- course with them ) fhould borrow a funda- mental , on which the whole fyftem of their most GO 3 most ancient worship hinged , from a few ( 15 )
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... first straggle into Indoftan ( i . e , at the promulgation of the Chatah Bhade ) . A 17. Here we cannot help obferving , that the learned author of the Divine Legation laboured unwittingly under two other mi- ftakes , in fuppofing the ...
... first straggle into Indoftan ( i . e , at the promulgation of the Chatah Bhade ) . A 17. Here we cannot help obferving , that the learned author of the Divine Legation laboured unwittingly under two other mi- ftakes , in fuppofing the ...
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... first Britons we know nothing of ) in that fimple purity , and extent , as it was originally by the Bramins of Indoftan . 25. Tender confciences have no cause of alarm from our reviving the consideration of a doctrine , which in the ...
... first Britons we know nothing of ) in that fimple purity , and extent , as it was originally by the Bramins of Indoftan . 25. Tender confciences have no cause of alarm from our reviving the consideration of a doctrine , which in the ...
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Sida 55 - All things are delivered to me of my Father : and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father ; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
Sida 52 - And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with : but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give ; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
Sida 57 - Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
Sida 126 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Sida 58 - And this is life eternal, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
Sida 53 - And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the soul and with all the strength and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Sida 116 - tis hard, I own, to find. I see in others, or I think I see, That strict their principles and ours agree. Evil like us they shun, and covet good ; Abhor the poison, and receive the food. Like us they love or hate ; like us they know To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe.
Sida 99 - LORD, thou hast been our refuge, from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art GOD from everlasting, and world without end.
Sida 47 - I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth ; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Sida 57 - No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myfelf. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.