The Bible in India, Hindoo origin of Hebrew and Christian revelation, tr. [by G.R.]. |
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Page 146 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page xv - It was but yesterday that the lamented Burnouf drew the attention of his class "to our much better comprehension of the Greek and Latin, since we have commenced the study of Sanscrit." And do we not now assign the same origin to Sclavonic and Germanic languages ? Manou inspired Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, and Roman legislation, and his spirit still permeates the whole economy of our European laws. Cousin has somewhere said, " The history of Indian philosophy is the abridged history of the philosophy...
Page 131 - And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
Page 131 - Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place : ye are witnesses this day.
Page 308 - Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry. The tempter came to Him and said, "If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.
Page 18 - India of 6,000 years ago, brilliant, civilized, overflowing with population, impressed upon Egypt, Persia, Judea, Greece, and Rome, a stamp as ineffaceable, impressions as profound, as these last have impressed upon us ? " It is time to disabuse ourselves of those prejudices which represent the...
Page 308 - Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor; and he said to him, "All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.
Page 42 - ... contract but from the demand of performance. It seems paradoxical to maintain that for the purposes of prescription the right of action precedes the existence of a wrong : but Vangerow's doctrine is confirmed by the Digest : Est scriptum . . . eum qui rem deposuit, statim posse depositi actione agere : hoc enim ipso dolo facere eum qui suscepit, quod reposcenti rem non reddat, Dig.
Page 121 - Then not to kill. Not to commit adultery. Not to steal. Not to covet. Not to bear false witness. To honour all men.
Page xv - India is the world's cradle; thence it is that that common mother, in sending forth her children even to the utmost West, has bequeathed to us the legacy of her language, her laws, her morals, her literature, and her religion.