 | Robert Southey - 1811 - Počet stránok 304
...remarkable peculiarity. Prayers, penances, and sacrifices, are supposed to possess an inherent and actual value, in no degree depending upon the disposition...themselves, and rendered an Avatar, or Incarnation of Veeshnoo the Preserver, necessary. This belief is the foundation of the following Poem. The story is... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1811 - Počet stránok 282
...remarkable peculiarity. Prayers, penances, and sacrifices, are supposed to possess an inherent and actual value, in no degree depending upon the disposition...to the Supreme Deities themselves, and rendered an dvatar, or Incarnation of Veeshnoo the Preserver, necessary. This belief is the foundation of the following... | |
 | 1811 - Počet stránok 438
...remarkable peculiarity. Piayers, penances, and saciificcs, are supposed to possess an inherent and actual value, in no degree depending upon the disposition...power which has made them formidable to the Supreme Dei ics themselves, and rendered an Avatar, or Incarnation of Veeshnoo the Preserver, necessary. This... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - Počet stránok 568
...in the preface : ' Prayers, penances, and sacrifices, are supposed to possess an inherent and actual value, in no degree depending upon the disposition...designs, have in this manner obtained power which bas made them formidable to the Supreme Deities themselves, and rendered an dvatar, or Incarnation... | |
 | 1811 - Počet stránok 596
...extravagant system, ' Prayers, penances, and sacrifices, are supposed to possess an inherent and actual value, in no degree depending upon the disposition...drafts upon heaven, for which the gods cannot refuse pay* ment. The worst men, bent upon the worst designs, have in this manner obtained power which has... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1818 - Počet stránok 290
...remarkable peculiarity. Prayers, penances, and sacrifices, are supposed to possess an inherent and actual value, in no degree depending upon the disposition...themselves:, and rendered an Avatar, or Incarnation of Veeshnoo the Preserver, necessary. This belief is the foundation of the following Poem. The story is... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - Počet stránok 806
...remarkable peculiarity. Prayers, penances, and sacrifices, are supposed to postets an inherent and actual value, in no degree depending upon the disposition...which the Gods cannot refuse payment. The worst men, beot upon the worst designs, have in this manner obtained power which has made them formidable to the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - Počet stránok 400
...sacrifices, are supposed to possess an inherent and actual value, in no degree depending upon thft disposition or motive of the person who performs them....themselves, and rendered an Avatar, or incarnation of Vishnoo the Preserver, necessary."— Pref. pp. vii. viii. The reader, then, is to suppose that Kehama,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - Počet stránok 636
...remarkable peculiarity. Prayers, penances, and sacrifices, are supposed to possess an inherent and actual value, in no degree depending upon the disposition...themselves, and rendered an Avatar, or Incarnation of Veeshnoo the Preserver, necessary. This belief is the foundation of the following Poem. The story is... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - Počet stránok 1198
...preface : — "i'i<>i ,s, penances, and sacrifices, are supposed to possess an inherent and actual value, in no degree depending upon the disposition...performs them. They are drafts upon Heaven, for which the Oods cannot refuse payment. The worst men, bent upon the worst designs, have iu this manner obtained... | |
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Prayers, penances, and sacrifices, are supposed to possess an inherent and actual value, in no degree depending upon the disposition or motive of the person who performs them. They are drafts upon Heaven, for which the Gods cannot refuse payment. The... 
