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Page 303 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the god-head who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Page 303 - What the sun and light are to this visible world, that are the supreme good and truth, to the intellectual and invisible universe ; and, as our corporeal eyes have a distinct perception of objects enlightened by the sun, thus our souls acquire 1 Essays and Lectures, &c., vol.
Page 337 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page x - WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave...
Page 179 - Here we find a practice equally strange, that of polyandry, if I may so call it, universally prevailing ; and see one female, associating her fate and fortune with all the brothers of a family, without any restriction of age, or of numbers...
Page 349 - ... that over the inner chamber must have been the loftiest, the height of its pinnacle above the ground being about 7,5 feet. 'The interior must have been as imposing as the exterior. On ascending the flight of steps, now covered by ruins, the votary of the sun entered a highly decorated chamber, with a doorway on each side covered by a pediment, with a trefoil-headed niche containing a bust of the Hindu triad, and on the flanks of the main entrance, as well as on those of the side doorways, were...
Page 363 - I am but a fakeer, and it is the custom of my sect, with the rosary in our hands, to pray for the welfare of mankind and the peace and happiness of the inhabitants of this country ; and I do now, with my head uncovered, entreat that you cease all hostilities against the dah in future.
Page 336 - I will show thee," replied the stranger, " a better way than that; let a crier call aloud, GREAT is THE LORD ! G-REAT is THE LORD ! / bear witness that there is no God but the Lord : I bear witness that Mahomet is the Prophet of God. Come unto Prayer: Come unto Salvation. God is Great ! God is Great! There is no God but the Lord !" Awaking from sleep, the citizen went straightway to Mahomet, and told him his dream.
Page 348 - Martand consists of one lofty central edifice, with a small detached wing on each side of the entrance, the whole standing in a large quadrangle, surrounded by a colonnade of fluted pillars with intervening, trefoil-headed recesses. The length of the outer side of the wall, which is blank, is about 90 yards ; that of the front is about .56.