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" I have taken some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which it gives of the Deity ; in the endless round of its burdensome ceremonies, which occupy the time and distract the thoughts, without either instructing... "
The American Quarterly Review - Page 147
1828
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 53

1831 - 738 pages
...the religion of the Hindoos, ' in which I have taken some pains to inform myself, really ap' pears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which...the Deity ; in the endless round of its burdensome cere* India ; or, Faclt submitted to illustrate the Character and Condition of the Native Inhabitant;...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 35

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 - 1827 - 648 pages
...of, the religion of the Hindoos, in which I have taken some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which...system of castes, a system which tends, more than anything else the Devil has yet invented, to destroy the feelings of general benevolence, and to make...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and ..., Volume 23

1827 - 918 pages
...of all idolatries which I have ever read or heard of, the religion of the Hindoos, in which I have taken some pains to inform myself, really appear«...either instructing or interesting its votaries ; in tl»e filthy acts of un. cleanness • This passage refers to Csoma (not Cosmo) de Koros, of whose...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, Volume 23

1827 - 1164 pages
...of, the religion of the Hindoos, in which I have taken some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which...interesting its votaries ; in the filthy acts of uncleanness M • • ) * This passage refers to Caoma (not Cutino) ilc Êîãî«, of whole history and travels...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 35

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 - 1827 - 650 pages
...of, the religion of the Hindoos, in which I have taken some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which...or interesting its votaries ; in the filthy acts of undeanness and cruelty not only permitted but enjoined, and inseparably interwoven with those ceremonies...
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The Baptist Magazine, Volume 19

1827 - 676 pages
...of, the religion of the Hindoos, in which I have taken some pains to inform ym self, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which...it gives of the Deity ; in the endless round of its bnrthensome ceremonies, which occupy the time and distract the thoughts, without either instructing...
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Missionary Register, Volume 15

1827 - 670 pages
...the Hindoos, in which I have taken some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst — in the degrading notions which it gives of the Deity— in the endless round of its burthensome ceremonies, which occupy the time and distract the thoughts; without either instructing...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 4

Robert Walsh - 1828 - 564 pages
...heard of, the religion of the Hindoos, in which I had taken some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which...those ceremonies; in the system of castes, a system winch teixls, more than any thing else the Devil has yet invented, to destroy the feelings of general...
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The Christian Observer, Volumes 26-27

1828 - 852 pages
...of, the religion of the Hindoos, in which I have taken some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which...endless round of its burdensome ceremonies, which occapy the time and distract the thoughts, without either instructing or interesting its votaries ;...
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The American Baptist Magazine, Volume 8

1828 - 446 pages
...of, the religion of the Hindoos, in which I had talsen some pains to inform myself, really appears to me the worst, both in the degrading notions which...it gives of the Deity ; in the endless round of its burthensome ceremonies, which occupy the mind and distract the thoughts, without either instructing...
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