Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay, Band 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820 |
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Seite 77 - But these are all lies : men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Seite 126 - To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Seite 149 - ... enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the Lord...
Seite 351 - A firm belief that One Supreme God made the world by his power, and continually governed it by his providence; a pious fear, love, and adoration of him; a due reverence for parents and aged persons ; a fraternal affection for the whole human species, and a compassionate tenderness even for the brute creation.
Seite 149 - And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven...
Seite 353 - that the religion of the Brahmans, with whom we converse " every day, prevailed in Persia, before the accession of Cayumers, " whom the Parsis, from respect to his memory, consider " as the first of men, although they believe in an universal
Seite 97 - When thou art married, seek to please thy wife, but listen not to all she says. From man's right side a rib was taken to form the woman, and never was there seen a rib quite straight, and would'st thou straighten it ? It breaks but bends not. Since then ;tis plain that crooked is woman's temper, forgive her faults and blame her not. Nor let them anger thee, nor coercion use, as all is vain to straighten what is curved.
Seite 32 - Servants, you see the oath I have taken; I scrape it clean away from my tongue that made it...
Seite 349 - ... a fortunate discovery, for which," he said, "he was first indebted to Mir Muhammed Hussain, one of the most intelligent Muselmans in India, and which has at once dissipated the cloud, and cast a gleam of light on the primeval history of Iran and of the human race, of which he had long despaired, and which could hardly have dawned from any other quarter " ; this was, he declared, " the rare and interesting tract on twelve different religions, entitled the Dabistan.
Seite 351 - A system of devotion so pure and sublime could hardly among mortals be of long duration ; and we learn from the Dabistdn that the popular worship of the Iranians under Hushang was purely Sabian ; a word of which I cannot offer any certain etymology, but which has been deduced by grammarians from...