Christ and other masters, an historical inquiry into some of the chief parallelisms and contrasts between Christianity and the religious systems of the ancient world, Part 21857 |
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... literature is found to be in other products , it has never given birth to formal histories ' ; and what is even more remark- able , the Hindu scholar is deficient in those very qualities which indicate the presence of historic ...
... literature is found to be in other products , it has never given birth to formal histories ' ; and what is even more remark- able , the Hindu scholar is deficient in those very qualities which indicate the presence of historic ...
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... literature , for which the opposite school asserted an unfathom- able antiquity , had borrowed all its choicer por- tions from Greek treatises imported by the Arabs in the middle ages . CHAP . I. But truth , we now are justified in ...
... literature , for which the opposite school asserted an unfathom- able antiquity , had borrowed all its choicer por- tions from Greek treatises imported by the Arabs in the middle ages . CHAP . I. But truth , we now are justified in ...
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... literature from China and Nepál on one side , and Ceylon upon the other ; random guesses were exchanged for logical deductions , and philosophizing tamed or baffled by the stubborn strength of facts . It was now obvious , that if Hindus ...
... literature from China and Nepál on one side , and Ceylon upon the other ; random guesses were exchanged for logical deductions , and philosophizing tamed or baffled by the stubborn strength of facts . It was now obvious , that if Hindus ...
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... literature of the next period1 : 1 The following extract from Prof. Wilson's Introd . , as above , pp . xxvi , xxvii , is valuable on more accounts than one , and especially as shewing how very inexact some modern writers are in their ...
... literature of the next period1 : 1 The following extract from Prof. Wilson's Introd . , as above , pp . xxvi , xxvii , is valuable on more accounts than one , and especially as shewing how very inexact some modern writers are in their ...
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... literature , is capable of being carried back- wards to a period more remote than that of Joshua and the Exodus , -the age when Hebrew literature began to flourish , and , in contrast to the Aryan , manifest a thoroughly historic ...
... literature , is capable of being carried back- wards to a period more remote than that of Joshua and the Exodus , -the age when Hebrew literature began to flourish , and , in contrast to the Aryan , manifest a thoroughly historic ...
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Page 15 - For its purpose it is admirable, giving you a careful and intelligent summary of events, and at the same time indicating the best sources of information for the further guidance of the student. Among the authorities thus referred to, we find the. most modern as well as the most ancient, the continental as well as the English.