 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 síður
...and likcwife in Hiudoibn, mean only the powers of nature, and principally thofe of the fun, expreffed in a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names." Nor is it only in Greece, Rome, Egypt, and India, that the progrefs of idolatry has been from planetaiy... | |
 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1801 - 580 síður
...Rome, and modern Vdranes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally thofe of the Sun, expreffed in a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names. i Thus have I attempted to trace, imperfectly at preent, for want of ampler materials, but with a confiU... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 480 síður
...well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddefies in ancient Rome, and modern Vdrdnes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally thofe...of fanciful names. Thus have I attempted to trace, imperfe&ly at prefent for want of ampler materials, but with a confidence continually increafing as... | |
 | 1813 - 514 síður
...modern Varanes ( Henares) mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the sun, expressed in a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names." Since the appearance of this work, Major Moor has given to the public an account of the practice of... | |
 | James Mill - 1817 - 688 síður
...Rome and modern Varanes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the sun, expressed in a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names." * He says too, that " the three Powers, Creative, Preservative, and Destructive, which the Hindus express... | |
 | William Ward - 1817 - 424 síður
...Rome, and modern Vanares, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names.' Sir W. Janet. — ' Nature herself, and its plastic powers, originating solely in the sovereign energies... | |
 | John Hughes - 1818 - 378 síður
...Varanes, (or Benares,) mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the sun, expressed in a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names." Asiatic Researches, Vol. I. p. 267. — See also the Argument of Sir Wm. Jones's Hymn to Surya. As... | |
 | William Ward - 1822 - 580 síður
...Rome, and modern Vanares, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names." Sir W. Junes. — " Nature herself, and its plastic powers, originating solely in the sovereign energies... | |
 | 1823 - 872 síður
...likewise in Hindostán, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the sun, e.\pressed in a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names." Nor is it only in Greece, Rome, Egypt, and India, that the progress of idolati y has been from planetary... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1824 - 336 síður
...Rome, and modern Varanes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful...names. Thus have I attempted to trace, imperfectly at present for want of ampler materials, but with a confidence continually increasing as I advanced, a... | |
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Varanes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways, and by a multitude of fanciful names. 
