The Life of John Wilson, D.D., F.R.S.: For Fifty Years Philanthropist and Scholar in the EastJ. Murray, 1879 - 378 pages |
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Page 169 - Bless the Lord, 0 my soul. 0 Lord my God, Thou art very great, Thou art clothed with honour and majesty.' " ' If thus Thy glories gild the span Of ruined earth and fallen man, How glorious must the mansion be
Page 363 - struck off its nose. He ordered two pieces of the idol to be broken off and sent to Ghuzni, that one might be thrown at the threshold of the public mosque, and the other at the court door of his own palace. These identical fragments are to this day (now 600 years ago) to be seen at
Page 285 - Like the great Apostle of the Gentiles, he was willing to become all things to all men, if by any means he might win some.
Page 196 - all the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before Him.
Page 112 - the divine laws as to kill a hundred women ; and that the perpetrators of this sin shall be damned to the hell Kule Sootheeta, where he shall be infested with as many maggots as he may have hairs on his body, be born again a leper, and debilitated in all his members ; we,
Page 127 - Had not Gibbon, with all his desire to exalt Zoroastrianism at a time when his knowledge was necessarily imperfect and not derived from the texts themselves, confessed that " in that motley composition, dictated by reason and passion, by enthusiasm and by selfish motives, some useful and sublime truths were disgraced by a mixture of the most abject and dangerous superstition'"! The
Page 95 - is magnificent, although it is at once evident that nothing remains but the churches and some other public buildings. The walls of the city are now almost entirely destroyed ; but, like Dr. Claudius Buchanan, we entered the city by the palace gate, over which is the statue of Vasco de Gama,
Page 169 - gild the span Of ruined earth and fallen man, How glorious must the mansion be Where Thy redeemed shall dwell with thee
Page 72 - and a bird's nest upon his head. Wolff asked him, ' How can one obtain the knowledge of God ? ' He replied, ' Do not ask me questions ; you may look at me, for I am God ! ' Wolff indignantly said to him, ' You will go to hell if you speak in such a way.' " The subtle pantheism of the ascetic absorbed into Vishnoo was beyond the JudseoChristian dervish.