 | 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 - 1824 - 336 pages
...amazement, she beheld the whnlf 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,... | |
 | Vans Kennedy - English literature - 1831 - 666 pages
...deities" * A similar opinion is thus expressed by Sir William Jones : — " 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... | |
 | Secularism - 1850 - 574 pages
...W. Jones's dissertation on tho gode of Greece and India says, ' We must not be surprised at finding, that the characters of all the pagan deities, male...that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Komo and modern Savanes, mean only tho powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed... | |
 | Ephraim George Squier - History - 1851 - 278 pages
...distinctive character of the mythological doctrines of the ancient Irish ; such the sum of all my labors." finding, on a close examination, that the characters...of gods and goddesses, in ancient Rome and modern Varanes, mean only the Powers of Nature, and principally those of the SUN, expressed in a variety of... | |
 | James Prinsep - India - 1858 - 622 pages
...could not present many difficulties. ' We must not be surprised,' says Sir William Jones, 'at finding that the characters of all the pagan deities, male...of gods and goddesses, in ancient Rome and modern Yaranes (Benares), mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the sun, expressed in a... | |
 | James Prinsep - India - 1858 - 658 pages
...could not present many difficulties. ' We must not be surprised,' says Sir William Jones, 'at finding that the characters of all the pagan deities, male...the whole crowd of gods and goddesses, in ancient Eome and modern Yaranes (Benares), mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the sun,... | |
 | William Ward - Hindu literature - 1815 - 544 pages
...Kalu-Bhoirnvii, &c. are forms of Sfiivu. ' Thus* as Sir W. Jones has observed, ' 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.' But the enquiry returns, 'What is the object of worship among the Hindoos ?' It is not the ONE GOD,... | |
 | Morgan Peter Kavanagh - Language and languages - 1871 - 542 pages
...learned Oriental scholar England has to boast of—says on this subject: “We must not be surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters...of gods and goddesses, in ancient Rome and modern Várânes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the sun, expressed in a variety... | |
 | Godfrey Higgins - Religion - 1874 - 610 pages
...here expressed, by shewing them that they are neither new nor unsupported: "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 Vaidnes,... | |
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We must not be surprised," he says, " at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods... 
