Dermot Killingley, however, cites a reference to "Hindooism" by Rammohun Roy in 1816. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
The Oxford English Dictionary traces "Hindooism" to an 1829 reference in the Bengalee, Vol 43, and also refers to an 1858 usage by the German Indologist Max Müller. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Hindooism is more fantastic, and less pleasingly endeared to us, than the paganism of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
The city here represented is the religious centre of Hindooism, and one of the oldest cities on the globe. From Wordnik.com. [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference
Protestants: and we expect that Hindoos, who believe that the privileges of Hindooism can be forfeited by a merely physical act, will expose theirs to the danger of being made Christians!. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Government] Reference
Hindooism, with its numerous gods and idolatrous worship, to. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World] Reference
Except for the philosophy of Hindooism, the second edition of. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
Thus, when Hindooism had become corrupt, the deeply meditative system of. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field] Reference
Court, decided that, according to Hindooism, a life of mortification is the law for a widow. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
We have already seen how Carey at the end of the eighteenth century found Hindooism at its worst. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
Hindooism, persecuting the Roman Catholics in his dominions till no one dared make an open profession. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field] Reference
Odd-fellows; whatever is peculiar to Hindooism is excluded; whatever is peculiar to Mohammedanism is excluded; whatever is peculiar to. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Societies] Reference
John Ritchie as printer, John Campbell as catechist, and other lay workers, determined to turn the very centre of Hindooism, Benares, into. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
He had laid the foundations in the darkness of the pit of Hindooism, while the Northamptonshire pastors, by prayer and self-sacrifice, held the ropes. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
India which we shall trace, or as long as Fuller, Ryland, and Sutcliff lived "to hold the ropes," while Carey, Marshman, and Ward excavated the mine of Hindooism. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
Even in the absence of any better information, we should be constrained to doubt the accuracy of the authorities quoted by Mr. Watson in relation to Hindooism, when by one. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
Although it avoided religious controversy, in a few weeks an opposition journal was issued by a native, who sought to defend Hindooism under the title of the Destroyer of Darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
Moved, however, chiefly by a zeal for Hindooism, which caused him to put a Soodra to death for marrying into a Brahman family, he himself wrote the vernacular and spent money in gifts, which. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
The plunderers were not the followers of Mahomet, nor the devotees of Hindooism, nor benighted pagans, nor idolaters, but people called Christians, and thus the ruthless traders in the souls and bodies of men fastened upon. From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time] Reference
Benares, the first large city on the united Ganges and Jumna, may be called the citadel of Hindooism, containing about a hundred and fifty thousand permanent inhabitants and as many more floating population, composed of pilgrims constantly coming and going. From Wordnik.com. [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference
In its place there was not only a wild licence amounting to an undoubted Hindoo revival, marked on the political side by the Maratha ascendency, but there came to be deliberate encouragement of the worst forms of Hindooism by the East India Company and its servants. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
Benares, the first large city on the united Ganges and Jumna, may be called the citadel of Hindooism, containing about one hundred and fifty thousand fixed inhabitants, and nearly as many more of floating population, composed of pilgrims, constantly coming and going. From Wordnik.com. [Due West or Round the World in Ten Months] Reference
While I was a student in the Princeton Seminary we had a visit from the veteran missionary, Levi Spalding, who sailed from Boston to Southern India in the very first band which invaded the darkness of Hindooism He was as nearly like my conception of the Apostle Paul as anyone I ever beheld. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of a Long Life]
At this early period Carey saw the weakness of Hindooism as a pretended revelation, from its identification with false physics, just as Duff was to see and use it afterwards with tremendous effect, and wrote: -- "There is a necessity of explaining to them several circumstances relative to geography and chronology, as they have many superstitious opinions on those subjects which are closely connected with their systems of idolatry.". From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
Hindooism took its place. From Wordnik.com. [The Critic in the Orient] Reference
Hindooism. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Government] Reference
An Antiquated Hindooism. From Wordnik.com. [Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity] Reference
Britain -- Bengal and the famine of 1769-70 -- The Decennial Settlement declared permanent -- Effects on the landed classes -- Obstacles to Carey's work -- East India Company at its worst -- Hindooism and the Bengalees in. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
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