 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1883 - 822 pages
...Supreme Unity, as in their essential principles." S:'ys Sir William Jones: " We must not be surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, maie and female, melt into each other, and at last into one or two, fi.rit seems a well-founded opinion... | |
 | Thomas William Doane - Religion - 1883 - 754 pages
...light approaches." Many years ago, the learned Sir William Jones said : " We must not. be surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pngan deities, male and female, melt into each other, and at last into one or two ; for it seems as... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1886 - 818 pages
...Supreme Unity, as in their essenti.il principles.' Says Sir William Jones: ' We must not bo surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters...crowd 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... | |
 | Agnosticism - 1906 - 812 pages
...of furnishing an intellectual side to the religious doctrine of the future life. SIR WILLIAM JONES. The characters of all the pagan deities, male and...melt into each other and at last into one or two. SIR \VILLIAM JONES. The whole crowd of gods and godesses in ancient Rome mean only the powers of nature... | |
 | 1908 - 304 pages
...denominated Myrionymia, the goddess with a thousand names." Sir William Jones says: "We must not be surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters...opinion that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses were only the powers of nature and principally those of the sun, expressed in a variety of ways." It... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1913 - 492 pages
...overstated the perplexity of the problem in the following remarkable forecast delivered more than a century ago, in the first anniversary discourse before the...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... | |
 | Hargrave Jennings - Religion - 1996 - 150 pages
...Principles, the Great God and Goddess of the'Gentiles."* "We must not be surprised," says Sir William Jones, "at finding, on a close examination, that the characters...whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome and modem V4ranes mean only the Powers of Nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety... | |
 | Edward Moor - Art, Hindu - 1999 - 702 pages
...and radiate from his most glorious centre. "• We must not," says Sir WILLIAM JONES, " be surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters...deities, male and female, melt into each other, and at kst into one or two; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of go<*s and goddesses,... | |
 | Michael J. Franklin - Deccan (India) - 2000 - 580 pages
...whole univerft 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, thur the whole crowd of gods and goddefles... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1874 - 490 pages
...mixed and complex personality. The mythologist who seeks to ascertain the precise definition of the Red Indian Michabu in his various characters of Heaven-god...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... | |
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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... 
