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... truth in the East ; have raised a fund for the institution of a Prize in one of the Universities , and for the establishment of two native Scholarships at Bishop Corrie's Grammar School at Madras , -such Prize and Scholarships to be ...
... truth in the East ; have raised a fund for the institution of a Prize in one of the Universities , and for the establishment of two native Scholarships at Bishop Corrie's Grammar School at Madras , -such Prize and Scholarships to be ...
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... truth had been the most defaced , were the first and the readiest to submit to the dominion of the Crescent . The great schism amongst the Mahometans owes 1 Mr. Elphinstone remarks , that the temporal power acquired by the false prophet ...
... truth had been the most defaced , were the first and the readiest to submit to the dominion of the Crescent . The great schism amongst the Mahometans owes 1 Mr. Elphinstone remarks , that the temporal power acquired by the false prophet ...
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... truth than that advocated by the modern Socinians . Although the creed of Ma- homet founded itself , from the first , upon the doctrine of a rigid fatalism , and has inflexibly preserved the tenet of absolute predestination , as a ...
... truth than that advocated by the modern Socinians . Although the creed of Ma- homet founded itself , from the first , upon the doctrine of a rigid fatalism , and has inflexibly preserved the tenet of absolute predestination , as a ...
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... truth has been obscured by Mahomet , by the addition of a fiction which was necessary for the promulgation of his new faith , namely , " That Mahomet is the Apostle of God . " Whilst the manifestation and preservation of the doctrine of ...
... truth has been obscured by Mahomet , by the addition of a fiction which was necessary for the promulgation of his new faith , namely , " That Mahomet is the Apostle of God . " Whilst the manifestation and preservation of the doctrine of ...
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... truth , he might say , how he can suppose a Divine Personage ( such as he believes Jesus to have been ) could submit to the labours of a pro- phetic mission ; and , after all , during his whole ex- emplary life , convert only a few to ...
... truth , he might say , how he can suppose a Divine Personage ( such as he believes Jesus to have been ) could submit to the labours of a pro- phetic mission ; and , after all , during his whole ex- emplary life , convert only a few to ...
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Page 62 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 90 - A thousand pilgrims strain Arm, shoulder, breast, and thigh, with might and main, To drag that sacred wain, And scarce can draw along the enormous load. Prone fall the frantic votaries in its road, And, calling on the God, Their self-devoted bodies there they lay To pave his chariot- way. On Jaga-Naut they call : The ponderous Car rolls on, and crushes all.