"Canonical" Quotes from Famous Books
... chronology (other calculations ranging variously between 400 B.C. and 460 A.D.), the Orientalists place themselves inextricably between the horns of a dilemma. For whether Panini flourished 350 B.C. or 180 A.D., he could not have been illiterate; for firstly, in the Lalita Vistara, a canonical book recognized by the Sanskritists, attributed by Max Muller to the third Buddhist council (and translated into Tibetan), our Lord Buddha is shown as studying, besides Devanagari, sixty-three other ... — Five Years Of Theosophy • Various
... 'Nihongi' are their [the Shint[o]ists] canonical books, ... and almost their every ... — The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis
... assembly did oblige, as synodal decrees, not as apostolical and canonical Scripture: this ... — The Divine Right of Church Government • Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
... "where," says he, "is a consequence of all sorts of people of both sexes; and where they hear how they ought to live well in this world, that they may deserve to live happily and eternally in another." And this custom he declares to be universal: "The canonical books of Scripture being read every where, the miracles therein recorded are well known to all people." (Lardner, Cred. vol. x. ... — Evidences of Christianity • William Paley
... distinctively Christian. Intermediate between the two "Testaments" in point of date are the writings known as the "Apocrypha," which though inferior, for the most part, in spiritual value to the fully canonical books, and frequently omitted from printed editions of the Bible, are regarded by the Church as canonical in ... — Religious Reality • A.E.J. Rawlinson
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