A comparison of all religionsHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - Christianity and other religions |
Common terms and phrases
Ahriman ancient ancient Egypt Animism beauty believe body Brahmanism Buddha Buddhism called Catholic cause character childlike races Christ Christianity church civilization Confucius creation Creator darkness death declares Deity Dhammapada Ditheism divine doctrine earth Egypt Egyptian eternal ethnic religions Euthydemus evil existence faith Father future give gods Greece Greek heart heaven hereafter highest Hindu holy human idea immortality India infinite inspiration Jesus Judaism Koran ligion live mankind ment mind Mohammed Mohammedanism Monotheism moral Moses nations nature Nirvâna origin Osiris Pantheism perfect Persia philosophers Plato Polytheism prayer priests prophets religious ritual Roman Rome sacred books says seen sense Socrates soul speak spirit Sram supernatural Supreme T. W. Rhys Davids taught teaching temples tendency Testament thee theism things thou thought tion transmigration triad tribes truth ture unity universe vast Vedas virtues whole worship wrong Zoroaster
Popular passages
Page 345 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 23 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.
Page 67 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 256 - Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone. And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye; For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat, These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass.
Page 352 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 375 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord ; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people ; and they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord ; for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Page 345 - Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun ? or who could find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? Why do we then shun Death with anxious strife ? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life ? " I would not slight this wondrous world.
Page 147 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 255 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page 336 - WHEN COLDNESS WRAPS THIS SUFFERING CLAY. WHEN coldness wraps this suffering clay, Ah, whither strays the immortal mind? It cannot die, it cannot stay, But leaves its darken'd dust behind. Then, unembodied, doth it trace By steps each planet's heavenly way ? Or fill at once the realms of space, A thing of eyes, that all survey ? Eternal, boundless...