 Bacon, that it consisted solely of moral and metaphysical allegories, nor with Bryant, that all the heathen divinities are only different attributes and representations of the Sun or of deceased progenitors, but conceive that the whole system of religious...  Asiatic Researches - Page 432by Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 480 pages
...mythology was nothing but hiftorical truth in a poetical drefe, nor, with BACON, that it confifted folely of moral and metaphyfical allegories, nor with...religious fables rofe, like the Nile, from feveral diftinct fources, yet I cannot but agree, that one great fpring and fountain of all idolatry in the... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1807 - 488 pages
...mythology was nothing but hiftorical truth in a poetical drefs, nor, with BACON, that it confifted folely of moral and metaphyfical allegories, nor with...religious fables rofe, like the Nile, from feveral diftinc~l fources, yet I cannot but agree, that one great fpring and fountain of all idolatry in the... | |
 | Sir William Jones - Asia - 1824 - 356 pages
...historical truth in a poetical dress; nor with Bacon, that it consisted solely of moral and metaphysical allegories; nor with Bryant, that all the heathen divinities are only different attributes and representations of the Sun, or of deceased progenitors ; but conceive that the whole system of religious... | |
 | Edward Garrard Marsh - Religion - 1848 - 302 pages
...historical truth ' in a poetical dress, nor with Bacon, that it consisted solely ' of moral and metaphysical allegories, nor with Bryant, that ' all the heathen divinities are only different attributes and ' representations of the sun, or of deceased progenitors, but ' conceive, that the whole system of... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1871 - 510 pages
...like the Qod Of this new world." It is no exaggeration to say, with Sir William Jones, that one great fountain of all idolatry in the four quarters of the globe was the veneration paid by men to the sun : it is no more than an exaggeration to say with Mr. Helps of the... | |
 | William Long - Stonehenge (England) - 1876 - 288 pages
...connection with the earth, the " Trafifiijrop rt yf/" apostrophized by Prometheus, (Prom. Vinctus 90). great fountain of all idolatry in the four quarters of the globe was the veneration paid by men to the sun : it is no more than an exaggeration to say, with Mr. Helps, of the... | |
 | E. S. Shaffer - History - 1980 - 376 pages
...historical truth in a poetical dress, nor, with BACON, that it consisted solely of moral and metaphysical allegories, nor with BRYANT, that all the heathen divinities are only different attributes and representations of the Sun or of deceased progenitors, but conceive that the whole system of religious... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1924 - 734 pages
...Surya, the three-bodied deity of light (Treyit), is thus set forth by Sir Wm. Jones: "The one great fountain of all idolatry in the four quarters of the globe was the veneration paid by man to the sun." The offices of Surya are threefold: first, to create; second, to... | |
 | Edward Moor - Art, Hindu - 1999 - 702 pages
...rose, like the Nilet from several distinct sour CM I and inclined to the opinion, that one great spring and fountain of all idolatry, in the four quarters of the globe, was the veneration paid by men to the $un; and another, the immoderate respect shewn to the memory of powerful... | |
 | Michael J. Franklin - Deccan (India) - 2000 - 580 pages
...the heathen Divinities are only different attributes and reprcfentations of the Sun, or ofdeceafed progenitors; but conceive that the whole fyftem of...religious fables rofe, like the Nile, from feveral diftincl fources ; yet I cannot but agree that one great fpring and fountain of all idolatry, in the... | |
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