 | 1859 - 932 pages
...consonance with the tenets of some of the Indiau schools of theosophy : — HE from whom all this groat creation came. Whether His will created or was mute....Seer, that is in highest heaven, He knows it,— or percltance even He L-iunct not." among the ancient Persians. On the other hand, the descendants of... | |
 | 1868 - 506 pages
...Who knows from whence the great creation sprang ? He from whom all tbis great creation came, W hether His will created or was mute, The Most High Seer that...heaven, He knows it or, perchance even He knows not.' — • Rig-Feda, Hymn I29, Bk. x. Colebrooke tr. Fifty years ago little, if anything, was known of... | |
 | Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe - Fairy tales - 1859 - 684 pages
...sprang? The Gods themselves came later into being — Who knows from whence this great creation sprang ? He from whom all this great creation came, Whether...heaven, He knows it — or perchance even he knows not." If we reflect that this hymn was composed centuries before the time of Hesiod, we shall be better able... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Brahmanism - 1859 - 698 pages
...The gods themselves came later into being. — Who knows from whence this great creation sprang? — He from whom all this great creation came. Whether...is in highest heaven, He knows it, — or perchance e'en He knows not. Many of the thoughts expressed in this hymn will, to most readers, appear to proceed... | |
 | Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe - Fairy tales - 1859 - 690 pages
...sprang? The Gods themselves came later into being — Who knows from whence this great creation sprang ? He from whom all this great creation came, Whether...Seer that is in highest heaven, He knows it — or perchunce even he knows not." If we reflect that this hymn was composed centuries before the time of... | |
 | Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe - Fairy tales - 1859 - 532 pages
...renown, possibly take in the records of a race so historically characterless, and so sunk in reveries Whether His will created or was mute, The Most High...heaven, He knows it — or perchance even he knows not," If we reflect that this hymn was composed centuries before the time of Hesiod, we shall be better able... | |
 | Scotland - 1859 - 910 pages
...to a European, ie quite in consonance with the tenet« of some of the Indian schools of theosophy : He from whom all this great creation came. Whether His will created or was mnte, Tho Mo.«t High Seer, that is in hlghcvt heaven, He knowi It, — or /weAunc« even lie knotc*... | |
 | Christian life - 1862 - 556 pages
...? The gods themselves. came later into being — Who knows from whence this great creation sprang ? He from whom all this great creation came, Whether...heaven, He knows it — or perchance even He knows not." In a certain lofty simplicity and meditative grandeur this could scarcely be surpassed, were we to... | |
 | Essays - 1862 - 560 pages
...? The gods themselves came later into being — Who knows from whence this great creation sprang ? He from whom all this great creation came, Whether...heaven, He knows it— or perchance even He knows not." • Translated by a friend of Mr. Max Miiller for his contribution to Bunscn's " Philosophy of History,"... | |
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Who knows the secret? who proclaimed it here, Whence, whence this manifold creation sprang? The Gods themselves came later into being — Who knows from whence this great creation sprang ? He from whom all this great creation came, Whether His will created... 
