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... the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, destruction of private property (plenty of that), paganism, and a happy ending. The prose is beautiful and occasionally requires the use of a dictionary - I had to look up “asperities.” Written as a children’s story, The Wind in the Willows is enjoyed by many grown-ups who r...

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... HEROES ............................................................................................................... 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. .............................

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............................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS ... ... as the first Hero in our series Odin the cen- tral figure of Scandinavian Paganism; an emblem to us of a most extensive province of things. Let us lo... ...primary form of Heroism. Surely it seems a very strange-looking thing this Paganism; 7 On Heroes almost inconceivable to us in these days. A bewilder... ...ory; and I here, on the very threshold, protest against it in reference to Paganism, and to all other isms by which man has ever for a length of time ... ...e, earnestly true. Let us consider it very certain that men did believe in Paganism; men with open eyes, sound senses, men made altogether like oursel... ... did operate fundamentally in this business. The hypothesis which ascribes Paganism wholly or mostly to this agency, I call a little more respectable;... ...tainty, not the producer of it; not in Bunyan’s nor in any other case. For Paganism, therefore, we have still to inquire, Whence came that scientific ... ...ace, such a phenomenon as that far- distant distracted cloudy imbroglio of Paganism,—more like a cloud-field than a distant continent of firm land and... ...ing 12 Thomas Carlyle the stars? Such is to me the secret of all forms of Paganism. Worship is transcendent wonder; wonder for which there is now no ...

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...rophecy which respecteth the downfall of the Papacy to the Church while suffering under Paganism, or that which respecteth the downfall of Infidelity... ...alypse was known and cherished in the Church as the g reat assurance of the downfall of Paganism; during the sufferings of the Waldenses and the Pro... ...the parallel history of the little book of the church under its threefold oppression of paganism, popery, and infidelity. In like manner the seventh... ... it let or hindered the apostacy from strengthening itself, that is, the taking away of Paganism. And this we believe is the object of the first fou... ...uch of the little book of the history of the church as concerneth the great red dragon. Paganism being taken out of the way, the apostacy which had ... ...anguishing captivity of Babylon, they had received in the events of the annihilation of Paganism, the fulfilment of the promises which had been made...

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...ear it." "A ... corq?" He nods. "Male witches, huh?" He explains about neo-Paganism—his faith—describes his first experiences with clairvoyance and le... ...is faith. And real Wiccans did not get high on drugs. This much of the neo-Paganism way he had firmly followed. But right now, sitting here with this ... ... purposely omitted. Camilla Diaz's biography read like a who's who in neo- Paganism, her credits reaching far and wide. New Life Incognita by Gracie ... ...s, workshops and seminars on New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 162 Paganism, spiritual growth and psychology to diverse college audiences, thr...

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...versity of the popular culture indicated by Camille Paglia: our concealed paganism. the modernists, with their rational emphasis, would have preferr...

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...te its impeccable monotheistic credentials, an exotic Oriental off-shoot of tribal paganism. Thus, the Turkish invasion and the hardships of daily...

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... heart truly lay. “Make your choice Anne,” Karen yelled. “Christianity or paganism!” Her husband added. “You can’t serve two masters!” Edward raised ...

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...ered his soldiers to march to the temples and despoil them of every vestige of Paganism. At the first hostile demonstration thus made towards the dest...

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...ng of the eyebrows, the use of stones of every valuable and select kind, and of all sorts of dyes, so that the world became altered. Godlessness and paganism increased, fornication multiplied, and they transgressed and corrupted all their ways. Amazarak taught enchantment, and the dividing of roots: Armors taught the use of magic. Barkayal taught astrology, and Akibeel ta...

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...hristian sects are tainted, tainted to a degree beyond any of the anterior paganisms, with this same hateful qual- ity. It is their exclusive claim th...

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...al feature of Christianity this involution of a doctrinal part, we elevate Paganism to a dignity which it never dreamed of. Thus, for instance, in the... ...in that unconditional universality pretended by the fathers. Where- soever Paganism was interwoven with the whole moral be- ing of a people, as it was... ...r- stition. The fathers conceived of the enmity between Chris- tianity and Paganism, as though it resembled that between certain chemical poisons and ... ..., which planted “the abomination of desolation” as a victori- ous crest of Paganism upon his own solitary altar? The insti- tution of the Sabbath, aga... ...ery worst, were no otherwise hostile to Chris- tianity than as a branch of Paganism. If, for instance, the Delphic establishment were hateful (as doub... ...sfied, and the earliest motive, was the in- curable Pagan bigotry of Rome. Paganism for Rome, it ought to have been remembered by historians, was a me... ...been remembered by historians, was a mere neces- sity of her Pagan origin. Paganism was the fatal dowry of Rome from her inauguration; not only she ha... ... inauguration; not only she had once received a retaining fee on behalf of Paganism, in the mysterious Ancile, supposed to have fallen from heaven, bu... ...me, it is appar- ent not only as a fact that Constantine did not overthrow Paganism, but as a possibility that he could not have over- thrown it. In t...

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...hould certainly be led to sup- pose that they had exaggerated the evils of Paganism, in or- der to enhance the merit of their own disinterested labour... ...d, but not by destroying the heathen. The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it... ...ivilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippe... ...ut what matters all this? Behold the glorious result!— The abominations of Paganism have given way to the pure 221 Melville rites of the Christian wo...

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...- selves, through links of ancient tradition, with the gloomy realities of paganism, when the whole Hartz and the Brocken formed for a very long time ... ...ind Christianity, as compared with the shallow mysteries that stood behind paganism, and it would be easy to draw the inference, that, in the capacity... ...of eating without forks; and for the last 160 years, at least, against the paganism of using steel forks; or, 2dly, two-pronged forks; or, 3dly, of pu...

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...onate concern which you show for the turning of the poor people from their paganism to the Christian religion; but how does this comfort you, while th... ...e nation of the T onguses to pass through, where we saw the same tokens of paganism and barbarity as before; only , as they were conquered by the Musc...

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...ed his opinion of the same poem, called it, scoffingly, “a pretty piece of paganism;” yet he himself, in the best verses he ever wrote—and beautiful o... .... Wordsworth does not celebrate 145 Thomas de Quincey any power at all in Paganism. Old Triton indeed! he’s little better, in respect of the terrific...

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...h Islands, the potent institution of the Ta- boo, together with the entire paganism of the land, was ut- terly abolished by a voluntary act of the nat... ... office in Tahiti lost much of its dignity and influ- ence. In the days of Paganism, it was supported by all the power of a numerous priesthood, and w...

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...ill see little more than the essential difference between Christianity and Paganism. But this, on consideration, I doubt. The Christian Church may be ...

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...day into the splendour of pious rhetoric; animalism had become fanaticism; Paganism Paulinism, the bold rolling eye that had flashed upon her form in t... ...istencies rushed upon him in a flood. He had persistently elevated Hellenic Paganism at the expense of Christianity; yet in that civilization an illega...

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...e of old crimes; she had taken her way amid the grime and corruption which Paganism had left there, and a perverted Christianity had 158 The Marble F...