Quæstiones Mosaicæ: Or the Book of Genesis Compared with the Remains of Ancient Religions |
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... moral excellence , is but a spawn of the teeming sea , or the offspring of wind and of night - yes , man , whose intellect is so imbued with the sense of order that it abhors all accidents , is himself but a piece of the finest and most ...
... moral excellence , is but a spawn of the teeming sea , or the offspring of wind and of night - yes , man , whose intellect is so imbued with the sense of order that it abhors all accidents , is himself but a piece of the finest and most ...
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... Moral Sen- tences recited at a Hindoo Funeral . 7 Wilford , On the Nile , Asiatic Researches , vol . iii . God , the Supreme Ruler , is a soul distinct from other souls , un- affected by the ills with which they are beset , unconnected ...
... Moral Sen- tences recited at a Hindoo Funeral . 7 Wilford , On the Nile , Asiatic Researches , vol . iii . God , the Supreme Ruler , is a soul distinct from other souls , un- affected by the ills with which they are beset , unconnected ...
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... moral interests , and ever fixed in contemplation on the Divine Nature , the purified saint then disdains all action as unworthy of him ; and strong in faith and knowledge , and with the mystic Om , the all powerful name of God , ever ...
... moral interests , and ever fixed in contemplation on the Divine Nature , the purified saint then disdains all action as unworthy of him ; and strong in faith and knowledge , and with the mystic Om , the all powerful name of God , ever ...
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... morality and religion to destroy ? 5 Menu speaks of a Brahmin of the highest order , as " having aban- doned all ceremonial acts and re- linquished all forms " ( vi , 95 , 96 ) , and the Bhagavat ( Les . ii , p . 39 ) thus describes all ...
... morality and religion to destroy ? 5 Menu speaks of a Brahmin of the highest order , as " having aban- doned all ceremonial acts and re- linquished all forms " ( vi , 95 , 96 ) , and the Bhagavat ( Les . ii , p . 39 ) thus describes all ...
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... moral law . Is , then , the Deity of Moses so poor a conception ? Who will dare to say , yea , with the God of Christianity before him ? If the Elohim of Moses is the God of an infant people , He is also , we must remember , the ...
... moral law . Is , then , the Deity of Moses so poor a conception ? Who will dare to say , yea , with the God of Christianity before him ? If the Elohim of Moses is the God of an infant people , He is also , we must remember , the ...
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Page 220 - And of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male and female.
Page 220 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Page 220 - For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Page 221 - And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him : and the LORD shut him in.
Page 222 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 222 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 221 - And Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons
Page 200 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 222 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Page 201 - Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...