The Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volume 2Harper & Bros., 1838 |
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... Persian Magi , likewise ; though involving what was true with much that was absurd . The individual who stands most prominent to us for right ideas on this great subject was that Athenian , who , as he is portrayed in his more four ...
... Persian Magi , likewise ; though involving what was true with much that was absurd . The individual who stands most prominent to us for right ideas on this great subject was that Athenian , who , as he is portrayed in his more four ...
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... Persians were hostile to the representation of their deities by material images of some form or other . Most writers who mention these , applaud and justify the practice . The second commandment was therefore as much beyond them as the ...
... Persians were hostile to the representation of their deities by material images of some form or other . Most writers who mention these , applaud and justify the practice . The second commandment was therefore as much beyond them as the ...
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... Persians , and Greeks , the Carthaginians and Romans , succeeded each other in ad- vancement and celebrity , while the Chinese , who grew up in a particular corner of the earth , and the Indian nations like- wise , gradually rose into ...
... Persians , and Greeks , the Carthaginians and Romans , succeeded each other in ad- vancement and celebrity , while the Chinese , who grew up in a particular corner of the earth , and the Indian nations like- wise , gradually rose into ...
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... Persian sovereignty was established , its first kings of the nquering race favoured the return of the Jews to their na- e land , and one of them had a Jewish queen and prime nister . The nation became afterward a province of the ...
... Persian sovereignty was established , its first kings of the nquering race favoured the return of the Jews to their na- e land , and one of them had a Jewish queen and prime nister . The nation became afterward a province of the ...
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... Persian Saadi , the Runic Havamaal , the moral Orations of Isocrates , the verses of Phocyllides , the Ethics of Aristotle , the Offices of Cicero , or the works of Timour the Great , or of the Em- peror Akbar , -if we look into the ...
... Persian Saadi , the Runic Havamaal , the moral Orations of Isocrates , the verses of Phocyllides , the Ethics of Aristotle , the Offices of Cicero , or the works of Timour the Great , or of the Em- peror Akbar , -if we look into the ...
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Page 176 - What was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his...
Page 176 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 219 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Page 428 - For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Page 386 - For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord : and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
Page 160 - Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus. On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine...
Page 173 - I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sat reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Page 175 - There was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 217 - Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right ; if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
Page 174 - STAY near me — do not take thy flight ! A little longer stay in sight ! Much converse do I find in Thee, Historian of my Infancy ! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee : Thou bring'st, gay Creature as thou art ! A solemn image to my heart...