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... The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir - 229 ページRobert Southey 著 - 1880全文表示 - この書籍について
| Robert Southey - 1811 - 304 ページ
...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 - 282 ページ
...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 - 438 ページ
...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 - 568 ページ
...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 - 596 ページ
...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 - 290 ページ
...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 - 806 ページ
...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 - 400 ページ
...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 - 636 ページ
...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 - 1198 ページ
...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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