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... to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions, nor even their comparative importance, so clearly discernible as when there has been time to ripen the fruit....

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...rily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions, nor even their comparative importance, so clearly discernible as when there has been time ... ...drawbacks are doubled when the subject of the biography has passed away in comparatively early life: when the persons with whom his life is chiefly in... ...ll, too, lived in near neighbourhood in those parts of London that now are comparatively deserted, but which were then the especial abodes of lawyers,... ...administering the Oath of Abjuration and the like matters. How few people, comparatively, know the influence Father exercises in this way behind the s... ...where most it is wanted; but I live here so qui- etly, that I have little (comparatively) food for some special faults. Good-bye, my dear Father, ‘You... ...h- ers, one of whom was something like Loki, in the Northern 267 Yo n g e mythology, always tricking him. Ikpat had disappeared in a ship, taking the...

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...n legends— such as that of “Heinzelman,” to be found in Keightley’s “Fairy Mythology,” and to “T eague of the Lea,” as related in Croker’s “Irish Fair... ...e no more idea of privacy in conversation than such as was afforded by the comparative seclusion of the party round the hearth, consisting of the Knig...

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...arding every- thing but the tyranny of time. Their names, the names of all mythology, became the household words of a coast that had never been ruled ... ...n- tinued existence as an enterprise, giving a return to men—to strangers, comparative strangers—who in- vest money in it, is left altogether in my ha... ... gesture, waved his hand to Charles Gould, and went out discreetly. In the comparative peace of the room the scream- ing “Monsieur l’Administrateur” o... ...se, without any sort of emotion whatever. Only towards the evening, in the comparative relief of coolness, he began to wish that this cord would snap....

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...is, and no one takes the slightest notice of her; her prettiness is of the comparative degree illustrated by the saying that among the blind the one-e... ... either C or L or Rubempre is in the right of it, or mayhap all the three. Mythology, beyond doubt one of the grandest inventions of the human brain, ...

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...cre- ated chemistry? At the same time, Lambert, at a later period, studied comparative anatomy, physics, geometry, and other sciences bearing on his d... ...ations which had taken for its share the new humanity. He thought that the mythology of the Greeks was borrowed both from the Hebrew Scriptures and fr... ...h penury.’ “We looked up at the sky and grasped hands. We first met at the Comparative Anatomy course, and in the galler- ies of the Museum, attracted... ... which we may walk and find no pitfalls in our way!’ “You will wonder what comparative anatomy has to do with a question of such importance to the fu...

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...ing to do things thoroughly, began with an essay on the Primitive Pig, the Mythology of the Pig, and the Dravidian Pig. Nafferton filed that informati... ...fin made a colored Pig-population map, and col- lected observations on the comparative longevity of the Pig (a) in the sub-montane tracts of the Himal...

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...ge sense that everything was coming to an end, and constantly weighing the comparative evils of yield- ing or refusing Aurelia. No one would have more... ...represents the four elements personified by their goddesses, and Aurelia’s mythology, founded on Fenelon, was just sufficient to en- able her to recog... ...Belamour and Betty were still sitting, for even the fashionable world kept comparatively early hours, and it was not yet eleven o’clock. The parlor wh... ... but Aurelia’s presence was perfect content to them, and theirs was to her comparative felicity, assuring her as they did, through their childish talk...

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...lse. (5) “Wise women,” a generic name for all supernatural women of German mythology. While it is not specifically mentioned, it is probable that the ... ...etails of the following scenes differ materially in the various sources. A comparative study of them will be found in the works of Wilmanns and Boer. ...

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...st sinecures in the Church. History and tradi- tion, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, are subjected to very different handling from t... ...nginus, in an oft quoted passage, merely expressed an opinion touching the comparative inferiority of the Odyssey to the Iliad, [Note: Longin., de Sub... ... Solon, fifty years afterwards, both readers and manuscripts, though still comparatively few, might have attained a certain recognized authority, and ... ...nent in the earliest than in later times. It was indeed connected with the comparatively low estimation in which female society was held; but the devo... ...ce.”—Dryden’s Virgil, ii. 479. 485 Pope 205 The destinies ordain.—“In the mythology, also, of the Iliad, purely Pagan as it is, we discover one impor... ...his legend is one of the most pregnant and characteris- tic in the Grecian Mythology; it explains, according to the religious ideas familiar to the ol... ...orrents of Greece and Asia Minor. Their wide, shingly beds are in sum- mer comparatively dry, so as to be easily forded by the foot passenger. But a t...

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...ee “Examination”, etc., 1903, pages 64-70. ‘Though legible throughout, and comparatively free from cor- rections, it has the appearance of being a fir... ...ould be ample. There was a time when this leisure would have been of small comparative value: it is to be hoped that the time will come when it will b... ...pendicular to the ecliptic. The strong evidence afforded by the history of mythology, and geological researches, that some event of this nature has ta... ... present argument which is as- sumed. The language spoken, however, by the mythology of nearly all religions seems to prove that at some distant pe- r... ...ter the important truths were forgotten, which this portion of the ancient mythology was intended to transmit, the drift of the fable seems to be this... ... innumerable other causes contribute their mite to the mass of human evil. Comparative anatomy teaches us that man resembles fru- givorous animals in ... ... spe- cies, that it has become necessary to urge considerations drawn from comparative anatomy to prove that we are natu- rally frugivorous. Crime is ...

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................................................................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68...

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........................ 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM... ...y 5, 1840.] LECTURE I THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGAN- ISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. W E HAVE UNDERTAKEN to discourse here for a little on Great Men,... ... among several other books he wrote, a kind of Prose Synopsis of the whole Mythology; elucidated by new fragments of traditionary verse. A work constr... ...; he first has made Life alive!—We may call this Odin, the origin of Norse Mythology: Odin, or whatever name the First Norse Thinker bore while he was... ...ust have been of much newer date; most probably, even from the first, were comparatively idle for the old Norsemen, and as it were a kind of Poetic sp... ...luspa in the Elder Edda; of a rapt, earnest, sibylline sort. But they were comparatively an idle adjunct of the matter, men who as it were but toyed w... ...h which we see a glimpse of the world that was in him. All his works seem, comparatively speaking, cursory, imperfect, written under cramping circumst... ... whatsoever must proceed by Symbols, by Idols:—we may say, all Idolatry is comparative, and the worst Idolatry is only more idolatrous. Where, then, l... ... With the art of Writing, of which Printing is a simple, an inevitable and comparatively insignificant corollary, the true reign of miracles for manki...

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...rength, and has been man’s cheerfulest encouragement to fight on since his comparative subjugation (on the whole, it seems complete) of the animal wor... ...en to a member under L20, and is respected enormously—like the lady of the Mythology, who was an intolerable Tartar of virtue, because her price was n... ...so hazard a guess as to the man’s present state. She ventured to think him comparatively harmless—for the 201 George Meredith hour: for she was not t... ...re was more for her to unbosom than Madame d’Auffray had revealed, but the comparative innocence of her position in this new light prompted her to mee... ...r the solitary example to be cited at the present period of the evils of a comparatively long peace. ‘Doubtless the tedium of such a state to a man of... ...first, you were for England, England! for a breadth of the palm of my hand comparatively—the round of a copper penny, no wider! And from that you jump...

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...y like this are not unusual on the part of sea captains landing at islands comparatively un- known. Even at the Pomotu group, but a day’s sail from Ta... ...our destination at this time, and the fact that we were abroad upon waters comparatively little traversed, lent an interest to this portion of the cru... ...itutions. T o their king, divine rights were paid; while for poetry, their mythology rivalled that of ancient Greece. Of Tahiti, earlier and more full... ...to sea. At the time, I was quite amazed to hear of press-gangs in a day of comparative peace; but the anomaly is accounted for by the fact that, of la... ... might be mentioned, may be ascribed the speedy restoration of our sick to comparative health. The orange of T ahiti is delicious—small and sweet, wit... ...administered the same as ever; the missionaries went about unmolested, and comparative tranquillity everywhere prevailed. Nevertheless, I sometimes he... ... which assailed them. The supreme maj- esty of Oro, the great god of their mythology, was declared in the cocoa-nut log from which his image was rudel... ...laimed to be a sort of bye-blow of T ararroa, the Saturn of the Polynesian mythology, and cousin-german to inferior deities. His person was thrice hol...

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...ld. How then, seeing we are driven to the hypothesis that people choose in comparatively cold blood, how is it they choose so well? One is almost temp... ...of any grit and spirit put their fortunes into one, there succeeds to this comparative certainty a huge welter of competing jurisdic- tions. It no lon... ...t these advantages. He joined himself to the following of what, in the old mythology of love, was prettily called nonchaloir; and in an odd mixture of... ...e grown person, cold mutton is cold mutton all the world over; not all the mythology ever in- vented by man will make it better or worse to him; the b...

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...or pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense-fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hun- dred thousand Patriotic Men; and... ...y, but four generations of it: this latter is the improvement hit upon, in comparatively late years, by a certain War-minis- ter much pressed for comm... ...d its stones are getting built into the Pont Louis-Seize, does this minor, comparative insignificance of a Bastille flank itself with fresh-hewn mulli... ...aint-Antoine prostrated the first great Bastille: will it falter over this comparative insignificance of a Bastille? Friends, what if we took pikes, f... ...ds of the Universe, could, at the present distance of time and place, gain comparatively small attention from us, how much less can this poor Legislat...

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...ds of him and the wine-flask. There must be meanings to that effect in the Mythology, awaiting unravelment. For the subject opens to deeper than cella... ...uent necessarily upon a disorderly stomach, that might protest a degree of comparative innocence, but would be shamed utterly under inspection of the ... ...a forest foli- age—rustle of silks and muslins, magic interweaving, or the mythology, if you prefer it. See, hear, smell, they are Juno, Venus, Hebe, ...

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...—have obtained a fame no longer confined to the boundaries of a remote and comparatively obscure nation, and who has called down upon their struggles ... ...isonment, since I could not bear without impatience a restriction which is comparatively a mere trifle; but I really could never answer the question t... ... propitiation, which some have thought has been derived from the Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasi... ...ave never been altogether superseded, even by bells, in the Old T own. The comparative merit of knockers and pins was for a long time a subject of dou...

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...t that the volume which I edit has not been honoured by its insertion. The comparative solitude in which Mr. Shelley lived was the occasion that he wa... ...eath, on the borders of Windsor Forest, where he enjoyed several months of comparative health and tran- quil happiness. The later summer months were w... ...rs, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain arbitrary discretion...

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...Royalty; and he bade me note that if he went in a carriage and two, he was comparatively unnoticed, whereas when he was beheld in a carriage and four,... ...and then off with Julia, exactly like two Gods of the 107 George Meredith Mythology, Apollo and Mercury. ‘I often used to think they had the jolliest... ...down for his costume Ball, according to certain regulations. The relief of comparative obscurity helped me to breathe freely: not to be laughed at, wa...

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...reasons which it would be easy to give, reasons emanat- ing from the gross mythology of the ancients, no Grecian, 24 no Roman, could have conceived a ... ...than childishly by one who should rely upon the encyclopaedias of 1800? or comparative physiology by the most ingenious of men unac- quainted with Mar... ...d it is shocking to know, that, according to recent discoveries, poison is comparatively a very merciful mode of murder. Six years ago a dreadful com-... ...ience, and particularly in physiol- ogy, in the doctrine of colors, and in comparative anatomy, which have divided the opinions of critics even more t... ... in com- petition with the French. But the fields of literature were still comparatively barren. Klopstock was at least an anomaly; Lessing did not pr...