Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland

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Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland., 1886
Most years contain the Proceedings and Annual report of the society.
 

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Pagina 379 - Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
Pagina xl - THE TEMPLES OF THE JEWS AND THE OTHER BUILDINGS IN THE HARAM AREA AT JERUSALEM.
Pagina 366 - Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons...
Pagina 366 - Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
Pagina cxli - On a Coptic Version of an Encomium on Elijah the Tishbite, attributed to S. John Chrysostom.
Pagina 365 - The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
Pagina 130 - Buddhism regards sensuality as altogether incompatible with wisdom and holiness; it is said that " a wise man should avoid married life as if it were a burning pit of live coals.
Pagina 491 - But he only shall visit the temples of God, who believeth in God and the last day, and is constant at prayer, and payeth the legal alms, and feareth God alone. These perhaps may become of the number of those who are rightly directed.
Pagina 144 - ... through a countless series of existences. If you have been a murderer, a thief, a liar, impure, a drunkard, you must pay the penalty in your next birth, either, in one of the hells, or as an unclean animal, or as an evil spirit, or as a demon. You cannot escape, and I am powerless to set you free."
Pagina 147 - Nought else but he there was — nought else above, beyond. Then first came darkness hid in darkness, gloom in gloom ; Next all was water, all a chaos indiscrete, In which the One lay void, shrouded in nothingness.

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