...eminent Christian divine Mr. Warren Hastings, as a performance ' of a sublimity of concep• tion, reasoning, and diction, almost unequalled ; and a...powerfully illustrating its fundamental doctrines.' But, unless awed and dazzled by the authority of this great theologian, Mr. Dudley must have observed,...

...Krisha and Arjun." Mr Hastings, in his prefatory recommendation of that work, expresses himself thus : " I hesitate not to pronounce the Geeta a performance...powerfully illustrating its fundamental doctrines. It will not be fair to try its relative worth by a comparison with the original text of the first standards...

...celebrated Hastings said, was ' worked up with wonderful fertility of genius and pomp of language into a 64 But the combat begins. Already the shock of the elephants...Esq., prefixed to Wilkins' Translation of the Bhagvat Gcuta, p. 11. K Pandoo army, including the " Five Brothers." This poem further informs us, that after...

...morality, should be styled, and by him too, a performance '* of a sublimity of conception, reasoning, aud diction, almost unequalled ; and a single exception,...corresponding with that of the Christian dispensation, and HOST POWERFULLY illustrating its fundamental doctrines." Is it possible for a man to speak thus of...

...application of them, rather than to the less probable want of perspicuity in the original composition. With the deductions, or rather qualifications, which...powerfully illustrating its fundamental doctrines. It will not be fair to try its relative worth by a comparison with the original text of the first standards...

...deductions, or rather qualifications, which I have thus premised, I hesitate not to pronounce the Gita a performance of great originality ; of a sublimity...powerfully illustrating its fundamental doctrines !" Strange indeed! — A system, which, in order to be appreciated, demands from every reader " the...

...application of them, rather than to the less probable want of perspicuity in the original composition. With the deductions, or rather qualifications, which...powerfully illustrating its fundamental doctrines. It will not be fair to try its relative worth by a comparison with the original text of the first standards...

...a single exeeption among all the known religions of mankind, of a theology aeeurately eorresponding with that of the Christian dispensation, and most powerfully illustrating its fundamental doetrines." To this statement I very eordially subseribe ; and before our analysis of the Geeta is...

...preface to Wilkins's translation by that eminent Christian divine Mr. Warren Hastings, as a performance "of a sublimity of conception, reasoning, and diction,...powerfully illustrating its fundamental doctrines." But, unless awed and dazzled by the authority of this great theologian, he must have observed, in this...

...to "Wilkins's translation by that eminent Christian divine Mr. Warren Hastings, as a performance " of a sublimity of conception, reasoning, and diction,...powerfully illustrating its fundamental doctrines." But, unless awed and dazzled by the authority of this great theologian, he must have observed, in this...