 Lyceum; nor is it possible to read the Vedanta, or the many fine compositions in illustration of it, without believing, that Pythagoras and Plato derived their sublime theories from the same fountain with the sages of India.  Works - Page 249by Sir William Jones - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Diane Long Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 286 pages
...possible "to read the Veddnta, or the many fine compositions in illustration of it, without believing, that PYTHAGORAS and PLATO derived their sublime theories from the same fountain with the sages of India."42 Indian philosophy possessed the reassuring familiarity of Platonic thought and each might... | |
 | Tristram Stuart - Cooking - 2007 - 692 pages
...ardently have wished it'. 'Nor is it possible to read the Veddnta,' he announced, 'without believing, that Pythagoras and Plato derived their sublime theories from the same fountain with the sages of India.' Even Christianity, he acknowledged, bore great resemblance to Hinduism: 'The Hindus,' he wrote, 'would... | |
 | 102 pages
...possible to read the Vedanta, or the many fine compositions in illustration of it, without believing, that PYTHAGORAS and PLATO derived their sublime theories...from the same fountain with the sages of India. The more similarities he discovered, the more certain he was that Pythagoras had traveled extensively in... | |
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