 | Mrs. Harriet Toogood - 1851 - 538 pages
...reach paradise. Long journeys are undertaken for the purpose of bathing in the stream. The doctrines of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of retribution, have been embraced by the Hindoos with remarkable eagerness and undoubting faith. This... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1852 - 678 pages
...called by way ' of eminence tnysteria. The mysteries ' чеге of two kind«, the greater and the 1 less; the less were preparatory to the greater. They...was supposed to pass in the regions of Elysium and Tarlarus; aud their chief design was, by sensible means, to spread among the people a conviction of... | |
 | Talbot Watts - Japan - 1852 - 222 pages
...difficulty in procuring other lodgings, they may be accommodated in them. They have some confused notions of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. According to their tradition, the souls of the virtuous have a place assigned them immediately... | |
 | 1852 - 776 pages
...now see whether they had any hope of a future state of rewards. It is inconceivable how the belief in the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments, so general among heathen nations from the earliest periods of history, could have had... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 852 pages
...celebrated and mysterious solemnity of any in Greece, and often called by way of eminence mytteria. The mysteries were of two kinds, the greater and the...rewards and punishments. To reveal the secrets of the Eleusiuian mysteries was looked upon as a crime that would not fail to draw down the vengeance of heaven.... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 872 pages
...celebrated and mysterious solemnity of any in Greece, and often called by way of eminence mynUria, The mysteries were of two kinds, the greater and the...in the regions of Elysium and Tartarus ; and their cliief design was, by sensible means, to spread among the people a conviction of the immortality of... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Church history - 1853 - 576 pages
...liberally allowed by the gods to those who regularly ministered to them in this way.(") The doctrine of the immortality of the soul and of a future state of rewards and punishments, had also been but very partially diffused, and even what had been advanced on the subject... | |
 | Henry Howe - Adventure and adventurers - 1854 - 740 pages
...the learned priests of Heliopolis, Plato, who studied here, is-believed to have derived the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. One afternoon, our traveler, with some companions, set forth from Cairo to visit the pyramids.... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1854 - 864 pages
...his brethren into the same destructive courses. That he may testify unto them— The certain truth of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments, and the infinite importance thereof; lest they also come into this place of torment—... | |
 | 1854 - 532 pages
...Greece. Ages before the rise of Athenian genius and the spread of Roman civilization, the great doctrines of the immortality of the soul and of a future state of rewards and punishments were acknowledged and diffused by the swarthy sages of the Nile, and the Sacerdotal Princes... | |
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Tartarus ; and their chief design was, by sensible means, to spread among the people a conviction of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. 
