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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest ...

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...ONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the h... ...tion -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -... ...ditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthagin... ...ghter of Umcan for a wife -- Refusal leads to war -- Ceremony performed by the astrologers to forecast the result -- Defeat and death of Umcan - - Imp... ...d as many mares -- Mare's milk used only by royalty -- Marvellous power of the astrologers -- Not withstanding their supernatural abilities they are c... ...4 Plan of Ciandu.......................................................... 105 Astrologers on the palace roof............................................ ... with which they made voyages to adjacent lands. They soon became known to the Greeks, whose country they visited, and by these were given the name Ph... ..., and by these were given the name Phoenicians, a designation derived from the Greek word for palms, great numbers of which grow in the Holy Land. BU... ...e earliest navigators, there are other peoples who lay claim to the honor, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Indians, each asserting that they were the e...

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...ie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus LI. Of the Vanitie of Word... ...Philospho e Medico). So Scholler-like did he undertake what Latine prose; Greeke, Latine, Italian or French Poesie should crosse my way (which as Bu... ..., Astronomy, Musike, and all the Mathematikes yet holde their name of the Greekes: and the Greekes drew their baptizing water from the conduit-pipes... ...o, Aristotle and many; or of purpose, as all since havemade most know the Greeke, and almost the Latinr, even translated their whole treatises? Why ... ... than the best, disclaimeth all memorie, authorities, or borrowing of the ancient or moderne; whereas in course of his discourse he seemes acquainte... ...all meanes and compass to bee expressed by teares.' The invention of that ancient Painter might happily fit this purpose, who in the sacrifice of Ip... ...tas. Their discommodities they know: One storme alike oer all doth grow. Astrologers may sport themselves with warning us, as they doe, of imminent ...

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...ave been most interested in comparing the culture of Lampang villages with ancient Finnish tradition and changes that have taken place in Finland. It ... ... swidden cultivation and created stable, permanent rice villages. From the ancient centre of the province, habitation spread out towards the mountain... ... have round turrets like knights' castles, Spanish patios, arched windows, Greek columns and statues from Antiquity. The era of mixed-style buildings ... ... REFERENCES With reference to ancient Finnish folk culture, my only source is Finnische Volksüberlieferun... ...n calendar at weekends, when people have time off work. There are very few astrologers in villages of Between two worlds Village sorcerers Thailand, ...

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...R I A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE FOUGHT LAST FRIDAY BETWEEN THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN BOOKS IN SAINT JAMES’S LIBRARY WHOEVER EXAMINES, W... ...ling from north to south, that is to say, from poverty to plenty. The most ancient and natural grounds of quarrels are lust and avarice; which, though... ..., been time out of mind in quiet possession of certain tenants, called the Ancients; and the other was held by the Moderns. But these disliking their ... ...f the two I have mentioned, or any other of the fraternity, to he not only astrologers, but con jurers too, if I do not produce a hundred instances i... ...may judge by the fulfilling of them, whether I am on the level with common astrologers, who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pothooks for planets, ... ...rute: That present times have no pretence To virtue, in the noble sense By Greeks and Romans understood, To perish for our country’s good. She named t... ...second. I never heard a finer piece of satire against lawyers than that of astrologers, when they pretend by rules of art to tell when a suit will end...

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...the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Tw... ...y one should imagine I am not in earnest, I desire him to reflect that the ancients (to say the least of them) had as much genius as we: and that to t... ...ll that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients; and it will be found true, that, in every age, the highest charac... ...ore they who say our thoughts are not our own, be- cause they resemble the ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like ... ...but only seem to be such, they have a wonderful variety in them, which the Greek was a stranger to. He exceeds him in regularity and brevity, and fall... ...ling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, 380 And the world’s victor s... ... away; 460 Hosts raised by fear, and phantoms of a day: Astrologers, that future fates foreshow; Projectors, quacks, and lawyers no...

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...BLE TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN VULGATE DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND OTHER EDITIONS IN DIVERS LANGUAGES DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSION 1609, 15... ...ng as he made thee swear. 7 So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao’s house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt. 8 And ... ...nd this is my memorial unto all generations. 16 Go and gather together the ancients of Is- rael, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fath... ... he had commanded. 29 And they came together, and they assem- bled all the ancients of the children of Israel. 30 And Aaron spoke all the words which ... ...tronger. 13 Thou hast failed in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers stand and save thee, they that gazed at the stars, and counted ... ...the king of the Medes and Persians. 21 And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the rst ... ...rince of the Persians. When I went forth, there appeared the prince of the Greeks coming. 21 But I will tell thee what is set down in the scripture of...

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..., the tyrant of Syracuse, suspended his inclination in the war betwixt the Greeks and barbarians, keeping a resi- dent ambassador with presents at Del... ... does better, he esteems him. And notably the cause of the laws and of the ancient government of a kingdom, has this always annexed to it, that even t... ..., and too much imprinted in my fancy that it is a beast of company, as the ancient said, but not of the herd.—[Plutarch, On the Plurality of Friends, ... ...ent to youth, but a reproach to old age.” These verses are preached in the ancient school, a school that I much more adhere to than the modern: its vi... ...to flag and languish under you, and there Latin steps in to its relief, as Greek does to others. Of some of these words I have just picked out we do n... ...seen. Why did not so noble a conquest fall under Alexander, or the ancient Greeks and Romans; and so great a revolution and mutation of so many empire... ...h the great conjunction of stars which eight hundred and odd years ago, as astrologers suppose, produced great alterations and novelties in the world.... ...y all share in the mischief; the tempest rages every- where.”—AEneid, ii.] Astrologers may very well, as they do, warn us of great revolutions and imm...

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... of the two I have mentioned, or any other of the fraternity, to be not only astrologers, but conjurers too, if I do not produce a hundred instances i... ...rs may judge by the fulfilling of em, whether I am on the level with common astrologers; who, with an old paultry cant, and a few pothook for planets... ...ondemn this essay, intended for a good de- sign, to cultivate and improve an ancient art, long in disgrace, by having fallen into mean and unskilful h... ...e scandal of religion, and reproach of power; and if sover- eign princes and astrologers must make diversion for the vul- gar why then farewel, sa... ...t virgins; lords shall knot and cut paper; and even the northern people : A Greek phrase (which for modesty s sake I forbear to translate) which de- ...

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...alls like a fine rain, wetting us, soak- ing into us, and dissolving those ancient customs which make the people to reap public amusement from the Rep... ... such manner that I fear greatly to see these illustrious fragments of the ancient breviary spat upon, staled upon, set at naught, dishonoured, and bl... ... heart’s blood.” And with her trembling hands all joyously she filled with Greek wine the 21 Droll Stories – Vol. 1 golden cup, brought by the Bishop... ...upon the infidels without giving them warn- ing, burning the Saracens, the Greeks, the English, and oth- ers, caring little whether they were friends ... ...re only planted at cer- tain celestial conjunctions ascertained by learned astrologers; at another that one should abstain from begetting children on ... ...shes which empurpled his cheeks spoke better than the best speeches of the Greek and Latin orators, and were well understood. At this sweet sight, the... ..., as indeed she was. As this book should, according to the maxims of great ancient authors, join cer- tain useful things to the good laughs which you ...

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... precious things put forth by the moon, 15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, 16 And... ...ourses fought against Sisera. 21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength... ...thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. 13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be... ...prevail. 13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargaz- ers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and s... ...uired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magi- cians and astrologers that were in all his realm. 21 And Daniel continued even unto t... ...brake from him. 2 Then the king commanded to call the magi- cians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his... ...heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: Mark 1135 26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast f... ...e thyself. 38 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. 39 And one of t... ... nothing? be- hold, the world is gone after him. 20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: 21 The same came th...

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...It is a science which I do not practise, like others who call them- selves astrologers, for hire or reward; for I have a competent estate, and only us... ... hitherto exulted in the prospects held out by the birth of an heir to his ancient property, failing which event it must have passed to a distant bran... ...ss who are called gipsies; who are in most cases a mixed race, between the ancient Egyptians who arrived in Europe about the beginning of the fifteent... ...se who are willing to suf- fer hunger and thirst in exchange for acquiring Greek and Latin. But there is a far more exact prototype of the worthy Domi... ...he had already attained that honourable title) descend the stairs from the Greek class, with his Lexicon under his 28 Guy Mannering arm, his long mis... ... fire. Under all these disadvantages, he obtained a competent knowledge of Greek and Latin, and some acquaintance with the sciences. In progress of ti... ... miraculous presages, Of strange turns in the world’s affairs, Foreseen by Astrologers, Sooth-sayers, Chaldeans, learned Genethliacs, And some that ha... ...ng drunk after the lady or goodwife’s safe delivery. The ken-no has a more ancient source, and perhaps the custom may he derived from the secret rites... ...is dia- gram there was one significator, which pressed remarkably upon our astrologers attention. Mars having dignity in the cusp of the twelfth house...

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...e:— 4 Kenilworth “At the west end of the church are the ruins of a manor, anciently belonging (as a cell, or place of removal, as some report) to the... ...or Hall, which, with others by the same author, was to be found in Evans’s Ancient Ballads (vol. iv., page 130), to which work Mickle made liberal con... ... 11 Sir Walter Scott The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall; Nor ever lead the merry dance, Among the groves... ..., a chapter of the Septuagint, and, moreover, having had his lesson in the Greek T estament.” “Ay,” said his mother, “and I have sewn a sprig of witch... ...planets, curiously intermingled with talismanical characters and scraps of Greek and Hebrew. In the midst were some Latin verses from a cabalistical a... ...look ye, there is another— a very learned man, I promise you, and can vent Greek and Hebrew as fast as I can Thieves’ Latin he has an humour of sympat... ...ieve that which I see wished for and expected on earth, solely because the astrologers have read it in the heavens.” “Thou art right,” said Leicester,...

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...mself into it with enthusiasm, and Latin antiquity was not enough for him. Greek, a study discountenanced by the Church, which looked on it as dangero... ...riendship of Pierre Amy and of the celebrated Guillaume Bude. In fact, the Greek letters of the latter are the best source of information concerning t... ...cy furnished by literature as well as by the popular taste. Was it not the Ancients that began it? Aristophanes, Catullus, Petronius, Martial, flew in... ... from his ancestor Esormon, Prince of Achaia, 2139 B.C., who was surnamed (Greek), that is to say the Fortunate and the Well-beloved. A Gascon could n... ...ent that Rabelais only collected popular tra- ditions and gave new life to ancient legends is said to be proved by the large number of megalithic monu... ...larity of his novel. No one has ever yet produced a written passage or any ancient testimony to prove the existence of the name before Rabelais. To pl... ... which is that of titubation and trepidation, about which our crackbrained astrologers make such a pother. This, said Panurge, makes the saying good: ... ... alchemy; to the very bottom. Whom have you got o’ board? said I. Said he, Astrologers, fortune-tellers, alchemists, rhymers, poets, painters, projec-...

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...without many words. We find, then, in Goethe, an Art- ist, in the high and ancient meaning of that term; in the mean- ing which it may have borne long... ... the high vocation of the poet; on this ground of universal hu- manity, of ancient and now almost forgotten nobleness, to take his stand, even in thes... ...ss, we can here say nothing. But in every department of Literature, of Art ancient and modern, in many provinces of Science, we shall often meet him; ... ...le which, in the hands of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the public... ... be accomplished until this hour was passed. These good aspects, which the astrologers managed subse- quently to reckon very auspicious for me, may ha... ...ttiest sight in the world; and I was on the point of sending all the other Greeks after him, when suddenly hissing waters spurted at me on all sides, ... ...lly into a small academy, in which every thing necessary, and at last even Greek and Latin, were taught. The extensive connections of Frankfort caused...

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...keeping his vow, to do worse. And thou mayest find the great leader of the Greeks in like manner foolish; where- fore Iphigenia wept for her fair face... ...agle counter to the course of the heavens which it had followed behind the ancient who took to wife Lavinia, 1 a hundred and a hundred years and more... ...ld to thee,—then with Titus it ran to do vengeance for the avenging of the ancient sin. 17 And when the Lombard tooth bit the Holy Church, under its ... ...riote 2 revolving in the third epicycle rayed out mad love; wherefore the ancient people in their ancient error not only unto her did honor with sacr... ...pproved the Rule of St. Francis. 22 “The head of the fold:” a term of the Greek Church, designating the head of one or more monasteries. 23 In 1223,... ... Whether Dante forms this word from the Hebrew Eli (my God), or adopts the Greek {Greek here} (sun), is uncertain. Even as, marked out by less and gre... ...om the red light of Mars to the white light of Jupiter, a planet called by astrologers the “temperate” star, as lying between the heat of Mars and the...

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...occur:— “How can one praise and glorify a nation as a whole?— Even among the Greeks, it was the individuals that counted.” “The Greeks are interesting... ...he relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the con- ditions were unusually favourable for the development of ... ...ristianity, whereby the whole of the deified mode of life and thought of the Greeks, as well as strong Romedom, was almost annihilated or transvalued ... ... just behold, my friends! Here where the tarantula’s den is, riseth aloft an ancient temple’s ruins—just behold it with enlightened eyes! Verily, he w... ...sea, and meant to catch good fish; but always did I draw up the head of some ancient God. Thus did the sea give a stone to the hungry one. And they th... ...e all bleed on secret sacrificial altars, we all burn and broil in honour of ancient idols. Our best is still young: this exciteth old palates. Our fl... ... THERE IS AN OLD ILLUSION—it is called good and evil. Around soothsayers and astrologers hath hitherto revolved the orbit of this illusion. Once did o... ...revolved the orbit of this illusion. Once did one believe in soothsayers and astrologers; and therefore did one believe, “Everything is fate: thou sha...

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...e doubted whether ever before in the history of the world did soothsayers, astrologers, and unregistered thera- 10 Heartbreak House peutic specialist... ...among us, the shock was not the less appalling because a few stu- dents of Greek history were not surprised by it. Indeed these students threw themsel... ...rymen of Vanity Fair. Another generation of “second- ary education” at our ancient public schools and the cheaper institutions that ape them will be q... ...London theatre than the Dialogues of Plato, not to mention revivals of the ancient Athenian drama and a restoration to the stage of Shakespeare’s play... ...n’t know our ways. CAPTAIN SHOTOVER [looking in from the hall suddenly: an ancient but still hardy man with an immense white beard, in a reefer jacket...

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...ine. Of her family—I have surely heard her speak. That it is of a remotely ancient date 170 Poe in Five V olumes cannot be doubted. Ligeia! Ligeia! i... ...h, the softness and the majesty, the fullness and the spirituality, of the Greek—the contour which the god Apollo revealed but in a dream, to Cleomene... ...ine orbs! they became to me twin stars of Leda, and I to them devoutest of astrologers. There is no point, among the many incomprehensible anoma- lies... ...e head of which only the back was visible, rivalled in outline that of the Greek Psyche, and was rather displayed than concealed by an elegant cap of ...