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Common terms and phrasesallusions ancient beautiful believe Bombay Brahmans called Calliroe Caloyers ceremonies Ceres Christian Church cleft Colchis common conical connected connexion curious deemed deity described Dowlut early Egypt Egyptian Eleusis England engraved extensively fables faith fancied farther feeling given Gnostic goddess Greece Greek Habesh half head hill Hindu Hinduisms holy India Indra Kala Kali Kalic King Koran Krishna language legends letters Linga Mahommedan Mahratta means mentioned mountains mysterious mystical mythological names of places native Neptune noticed observed occasion occur origin pagan papal Parvati perhaps persons pious Plate poetical preceding priests probably reader recollect reference regions religion river Rome sacred saint Sanskrit seal seen Seringapatam similar Siva sometimes sound stone Suffolk superstition supposed symbol temple things Thiva tion town traced tree triliteral trisula village Virgin Vishnu volume word write written Yakut Popular passagesPage 282 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower,— Before, milk-white, now purple with love's wound,— And maidens call it love-in-idleness. Page 29 - Praise be to God the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the King of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious ; not of those against whom thou art incensed, not of those who go astray. Page 184 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God ? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil ? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul... Page 446 - God! there is no God but he; the living, the self-subsisting: neither slumber nor sleep seizeth him; to him belongeth whatsoever is in heaven, and on earth. Who is he that can intercede with him, but through his good pleasure ? He knoweth that which is past, and that which is to come unto them, and they shall not comprehend anything of his knowledge, but so far as he pleaseth. Page 121 - The birds their quire apply; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves while universal Pan Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance Led on the eternal spring... Page 127 - And they believe him ! — oh, the lover may Distrust that look which steals his soul away ; The babe may cease to think that it can play With heaven's rainbow ; — alchymists may doubt The shining gold their crucible gives out, But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. Page 142 - Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold ! Page 105 - They held, among other things, that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism, and the other sacraments ; that the forgiveness of all sins was to be obtained by it, without the merits of Jesus Christ ; that the old law of Christ was soon to be abolished, and that a new law, enjoining the baptism of blood, to be administered by whipping, was to be substituted in its place. Page 59 - Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven, and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken Page 504 - ... head foremost. As soon as the operation was performed, the wounded tree was bound up with packthread, and as the bark healed the child was to recover. The first of these young patients was to be cured of the rickets, the second of a rupture. References from web pagesCrishna's Contributions Bibliographic information
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