| Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - Asia - 1801 - 580 pages
...whole universe in all its plenitude of magnificence. We muft not be furprized at finding, on a clofe examination, that the characters of all the Pagan...Deities^ male and female, melt into each other, and at laft into one or two; for it feems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddeffes... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1807 - 480 pages
...whole univerfe in all its plenitude of magnificence. AVe muft not be furprized at finding, on a clofe examination, that the characters of all the pagan deities, male and female, melt into each ether, and at laft into one or two ; for it feems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods... | |
| Classical philology - 1813 - 514 pages
...William Jones, who, in the First Volume of Asiatic Researches, p. 267, says;' " We must not be surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters...of gods and goddesses, in ancient Rome and modern Varanes ( Benares) mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the sun, expressed in a... | |
| Classical philology - 1813 - 514 pages
...William Jones, who, in the First Volume of Asiatic Researches, p. 267, says; " We must not be surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters...melt into each other, and at last into one or two, fox \\. s*rav% •». •v^-WaxAsAopinion,that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses, in ancient Rome.... | |
| John Hughes - Druids and druidism - 1818 - 378 pages
...his most glorious centre. " We must not be surprised," says the same eminent writer, " at finding, on close examination, that the characters of all the...into each other, and at last into one or two ; for it is a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses, in ancient Rome and modern Varanes,... | |
| William Ward - Hindu mythology - 1822 - 580 pages
...tenoli, that after Brüinh¿ had entered t¿ie world, he divided himself into male and female. * “ It seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and f2 collectively, the sun and moon, as well as the stars, the s'ea, mighty rivers, and extraordinary... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...between the idolatry of Rome and India through many other gods, observes, that " we must not be surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the pagan deities melt into each other, and at last into one or two ; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole... | |
| Sir William Jones - Asia - 1824 - 356 pages
...amazement, she beheld the whole universe in all its plenitude of magnificence. We must not be surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters...other, and at last into one or two; for it seems a well founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses In ancient Rome, and modern Varanes,... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1824 - 336 pages
...amazement, she beheld the whole universe in all its plenitude of magnificence. We must not be surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters...other, and at last into one or two; for it seems a well founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Varanes,... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 448 pages
...we must not be surprised, as remarked by the same author, at finding that, on a close examination, the characters of all the pagan deities, male and...melt into each other, and at last into one or two. It seems a well-founded opinion that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses, in ancient Rome and modern... | |
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