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... a few states of consciousness linked by memory in a kind of narrative or personal mythology. Can this conjecture be equally applied to unconscious... ...ntalism "It wasn't just predictable curmudgeons like Dr. Johnson who thought the Scottish hills ugly; if anybody had something to say about mount...

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...pples and berries in the pie filling. We have just signed a contract with Scottish shrimp companies to hand peel their shrimp at fifty cents an hour.... ...to have the shrimp machine peeled in Scotland by $11 an hour workers. 120 Scottish workers lost their jobs, but over 2000 of our people now have jobs... ...‘ I want very much to follow Gandhi‘s banner, but you know how it is with mythology and tradition. 20 ―Look at your American insistence... ...us economic and psycho-social realities are more important than religious mythology and theological speculation. ―The United Nations has prop... ...do have sacred cows, part of our respect is because of their place in our mythology, but part is because of our respect for their contributions to ou... ...ward a better economy. But facts have no weight when they run counter to a mythology that is deeply ingrained and forcefully proclaimed. Your America...

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...family to emigrate to the United States. After the family settled in a Scottish colony near Pittsburgh, twelve-year-old Andrew worked during the ... ... pull it back down to join another line of type. According to back shop mythology, these marvelous machines have ten thousand moving parts! Duri...

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...e family to emigrate to the United States. After the family settled in a Scottish colony near Pittsburgh, twelve-year-old Andrew worked during the ... ...n pull it back down to join another line of type. According to back shop mythology, these marvelous machines have ten thousand moving parts! During...

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... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle against royal mono... ....” And to give lawyers fits. But that is getting ahead of ourselves. In Greek mythology, Procrustes had a bed to which he fitted its prospective occupan... ...temporaries, the underlying issue would have been familiar. The free- trade, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- tur... ...s a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that goes beyond their c... ...The main thrust of the argument here is still firmly within the Jeffersonian, Scottish Enlightenment tradition. Jefferson does not wish to give the pat... ...ere is very good reason to believe that this attitude was dominant among the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers whose writings were so influential to the ...

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...t misleading. Pleasant features revealed anger for section blunders and a Scottish heritage aired with him cursing aloud. Relief came to his aching ... ...al paradise ruled by demigods and goddesses. Nelson's obsession with Greek mythology was the core of his secret society. Science and technology had l...

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...them as temporary, as the outcomes of someone else's errors, as part of the future mythology of his rise to power/brilliance/wealth/ideal love, etc... ...efits from Foreign Direct Investment in the UK? - S Girma, D Greenaway, K Wakelin - Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001 Why Investment Ma...

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...rs and theologians prove their positions to us—without the hocus pocus and mythology that any educated mind would certainly reject. Our problem is th... ...their observations of the real world with the 106 parentally provided mythology of fairy tales and the community imposed basic assumptions— wheth... ...―If you have a war, is it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more imp... ...their representatives, often find extra-marital flings as exciting. Hindu mythology has a number of stories telling us how the gods often indulged th...

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...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow... ...back home is blind to his true identity. The symbols of blindness in Greek Mythology have been screaming and shrieking to whoever wants to listen... ...ers. What culture has ever glorified its lower classes as America has into mythology and lies? Rome did. Like the famous, much-loved TV show: T... ...reams: the God known as Morpheus… ‘Morpheus was the god of dreams in Greek mythology. According to some ancient sources - such as the roman poet ... ...ian ideas and symbols and where they STOLE them from in Egyptian religion and mythology: you can find the ideas of Cain and able in Seth and Osiris. ... ...n brothers. You can find the two symbols of the early Christians in Egyptian mythology combined into one symbol: r1732 The Path of Splitness ...

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...Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873 – March 2, 1936) was a Scottish journalist and prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in the early 20th century. His works included Indian Myth and Legend, Celtic Folklore and Myths of China and Japan. As well as writing books, art...

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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... ...the Past, and covering the whole Northern Heaven, is not that Scandinavian Mythology in some sort the Portraiture of this man Odin? The gigantic image... ... is one. Hynde Etin, and still more decisively Red Etin of Ireland, in the Scottish Ballads, these are both derived from Norseland; Etin is evi- dentl... ...gether could not be? High Duchesses, and ostlers of inns, gather round the Scottish rustic, Burns;—a strange feeling dwelling in each that they never ... ..., with universal three- times-three! It seems to me hard measure that this Scottish man, now after three hundred years, should have to plead like a cu... ...soul of all the British lands came among us in the shape of a hard- handed Scottish Peasant. 160 Thomas Carlyle His Father, a poor toiling man, tried...

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...worse than nonsense, the correct reading being “ my heat.” In vi. 396, the Scottish “ boune” (though it occurs twice in other parts of the poem) has b... ...s beyond the sea, Seeking the world’s cold charity Where ne’er was spoke a Scottish word, 29 Sir Walter Scott And ne’er the name of Douglas heard An ... ...clans did ride, Are now one sheep-walk, waste and wide. This tyrant of the Scottish throne, So faithless and so ruthless known, Now hither comes; his ... ... thrice, that lady bold; He rose beneath her hand The fairest knight on Scottish mould, Her brother, Ethert Brand! 69 Sir Walter Scott Merry it... ...d step I knew; Like form in Scotland is not seen, T reads not such step on Scottish green. ’Tis James of Douglas, by Saint Serle! The uncle of the ban... ...cinity of Loch Katrine. The learned author is inclined to deduce the whole mythology from the Druidical system—an opinion to which there are many ob- ... ...mission of similar tales from age to age, and from country to country. The mythology of one period would then appear to pass into the romance of the n...

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... a strict sense, the very awful) ques- tion, What is to be the fate of the Scottish church? Lord Aberdeen’s Act is well qualified to tranquillize the ... ...true; and, being mon- strous, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two points abso- lutely wi... ... In this way grew up that twofold revolution which has been convulsing the Scottish church since 1834; first, the audacious attempt to disturb the set... ...ng demoralization of the lower orders.’ Now, having stated the practice of Scottish induction as it was formerly sustained in its first stage by law, ... ...marked rekindling of reli- gious fervor. In what extent this change in the Scottish church had been due, mediately or immediately, to Methodism, we do... ...lus, as the mythus itself differs so much from all the rest of the Grecian mythology, (belonging apparently to an age and a people more gloomy, auster...

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...the terrible catastrophe of the Bride of Lammermoor actually occurred in a Scottish family of rank. The female relative, by whom the melancholy tale w... ...ion, was communicated by me to my late lamented friend, William Erskine (a Scottish judge, by the title of Lord Kinedder), who afterwards reviewed wit... ...any occasions, been indebted to her vivid memory for the substratum of his Scottish fictions, and she accordingly had been, from an early period, at n... ...most a cyni- cal expression. This worthy gentleman’s reputation for shrewd Scottish sense, knowledge of our national antiquities, and a racy humour pe... ...he was sure, could be more generous in his nature, or more ready to help a Scottish purpose. Sir Walter Scott,—There is one who ought to be remem- ber... ... 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...

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...aid Madame de Bourke, unable to help smiling at her little daughter’s glib mythology, while going to the rescue of the embroidery silks, in which her ... ...ed the favour of a few minutes’ conversation in private with Ma- dame. The Scottish title fared better on the lips of La Jeunesse 16 A Modern Telemac... ...r whatever she would command.’ ‘If you can grant it—oh! Madame,’ cried the Scottish Count- ess, beginning to drop her formality in her eagerness, ‘we ... ...tched weak creatures!’ he said to himself, as he thought the traditions of Scottish heroic women in whose heroism he had gloated. And yet he was wrong... ...om the lady, who presented him to her brother as ‘Monsieur Arture’—a young Scottish gentleman who will do my husband the favour of acting as his secre... ...e viewed as a subject or as a rebel, or simply left to captivity until his Scottish relations should have the choice of ransoming him. She took a good...

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...n this planet) our English poets have possessed in the highest degree, and Scottish pro- fessors 3 in the lowest. I have often been asked how I first... ...ter during the demoniacal possession of a suffering conscience (or, in the mythology of the play, haunted by the Furies), and in circumstances of imme...

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...hunted through all sorts of tortures, yields a break- fast roll that (as a Scottish baker observed to me) is ‘not just that bad.’ Certainly not: not e... ...We should praise it falsely to call it so; for the feeble, though elegant, mythology of Greece was incapable of breeding anything so deep as the myste... ...cal education, could have been so much at home in the details of the elder mythology? Tooke’s ‘Pantheon’ might have been obtained by favor of any Engl... ... never said the thing ascribed to him here as any formal judgment, or what Scottish law would call deliver- ance, upon the ‘Hyperion.’ As to what he m... ...T riton wind his wreathed horn;’ whether this, or the passage on the Greek mythology in ‘The Excursion.’ Whichever he means, I am the last man to deny...

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...alarm (for he trusted in certain prophecies, which, like those made to the Scottish tyrant “kept the promise to the ear, but broke it to the sense,”) ... ...at of the con- science. Now, for a rude and uncultivated people, the Pagan mythology might not be too gross to discharge the main functions of a usefu... ...our moral obligations, and of our consolations in misery, except the fairy mythology of our nurses. The condition of a people so situated, of a people...

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...becoming bleaker and wilder, until it be came as bare and desolate as any Scottish moors. Soon after dark, we halted for the night, at the osteria of... ...graves: so do its ancient influences outlive all other remnants of the old mythology and old butchery of Rome, in the nature of the fierce and cruel R... ...than lamely assort. It is stranger still, to see how many ruins of the old mythology: how many fragments of obsolete legend and observance: have been ...

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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... ...Ralph, shaking his head. “There was Sir Henry —at your age he had made the Scottish thieves look about them, I promise you. And to go no further back ...

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...quarters at T ournai he had already pledged his faith to the daughter of a Scottish gentleman in the Austrian service. This engagement was viewed by t... ...ng or poverty for his bride, even if her father never were restored to his Scottish property. As you know, our grandfather, Sir Archibald Murray, died... ...represents the four elements personified by their goddesses, and Aurelia’s mythology, founded on Fenelon, was just sufficient to en- able her to recog... ... that alone, so I waited for other work to be in hand.” “There is a homely Scottish proverb, my Lady, which de- clares that the scrapings of the muckl...

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..., from the western dialects of Ayrshire, &c.! And I have heard it said, by Scottish purists in this matter, that even Sir W alter Scott is chargeable ... ...lfth chap- ter, twenty-fourth section, of his “Introduction to a System of Mythology,” says: “I have here gone on the assumption which I consider unav... ...Cambridge, with a patronizing flourish, to imitate some one or more of the Scottish universities in founding such sys- tems of aliment for poor studen... ...had allowed any opening for the foundation of col- leges or academic life. Scottish bursaries, or exhibitions (a term which Shakspeare uses, very near... ...ce was given to a Royal Commission, sent to investigate one or more of the Scottish universities. In the German universi- ties, every professor holds ... ...l channel open to their instincts of abhorrence. The most important of the Scottish professorships—those which are fundamen- tally morticed to the mor... ...phically or ethnographically, of its traditions, the vast labyrinth of its mythology, the deductions of its con- tradictory genealogies, the disputed ...

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...al!’ As good had been the natural Presbyterian Kirk- bell, and six feet of Scottish earth, among the dust of thy loved ones.—Such world lay beyond the... ...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... ...r the chained Hero; and even for the chained Scoundrel, or Semi-scoundrel! Scottish John Knox, such World-Hero, as we know, sat once nevertheless pull...

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... Horace was—to hint at the possibility of Rupert’s having been lost on the Scottish mountains, blown up on the railroad, or sunk in a steam-vessel—to ... ...rigin is not nearly so sublime as you would make it out. Keightley’s Fairy Mythology says he is only our old friend Robin Good- fellow, Milton’s lubbe...

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...ly, completing, as Henry said, the 99 The Chaplet of Pearls galimatias of mythology, a pasteboard cloud was propelled on the stage, and disclosed the... ...ill at the great door at the foot of the stairs she encountered a gigantic Scottish archer, armed to the teeth. She touched his arm, and standing with... ... and where could they be had? His grand- mother had been the daughter of a Scottish nobleman in the French service, and he had once seen a nephew of h... ...nger above mentioned, begged him to find out from Sir Robert Melville, the Scottish En- voy, all he could about the family whose designation he wrote ... ...rriage. This was Ambroise’s usual entrance, and it was merely guarded by a Scottish archer, who probably observed noth- ing. They then mounted the sto... ...eir ministry. There then was convoked the National Synod, answering to the Scottish General Assembly, excepting that the perse- cuted French Presbyter...

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...th of July. This island was occupied by Mr. Inglis and Mr. Greddie, of the Scottish Presbyterian Mission, who had done much towards improving the nati... ... course the coral formation out of the sea.’ Erromango was occupied by the Scottish Mission, and Mr. Gordon was then living there in peace and apparen... ...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... ...fore his eyes. The Erromaugo Mission, like that of Anaiteum, came from the Scottish Kirk. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, as has been seen, had been visited on e... ... into it. I don’t like to cut out the one I have in the long letter to the Scottish Episcopal Church, which you kindly sent me. ‘I found, too, in one ... ... Yo n g e customed to intercourse with sandal-wood traders, had resi- dent Scottish or London missionaries, and might have a fair understanding of wha...

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...rs, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain arbitrary discretion... ...d—for I, not coy, Yield love for love, frank, warm, and true; And Burns, a Scottish peasant boy— _325 His errors prov...

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...method of enraging him was to distin- guish one or other of them as Irish, Scottish, or Cambrian. He considered it a dismemberment of the country. And... ...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...

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...rties” spontaneous and joyously ab- surd. The beasts in the Milford hearth-mythology were not the obscene Night Animals who jump out of closets 10 Ma... ...alley of Massachu- setts Avenue, as she was rested by the integrity of the Scottish Rite Temple, she loved the city as she loved no one save Hugh. She...

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...The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It offered a modernist approach, discussing religion dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon, rather than from a theological per...

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...e case where a learned antiquary unfolds historically the record of a vast mythology. Heaps of such cases, (both law and mythological records,) surviv... ...lities must have worked an extensive conformity to their own standard. The mythology sanctioned by the ritual of public worship, the features of moral... ...rship, the features of moral nature in the gods dis- tributed through that mythology, and sometimes commemo- rated by gleams in that ritual, domineere... ...ould allow himself to touch it without gloves, it is to be wished that our Scottish brethren would resign, together with ‘backslidings,’ to the use of... ...after as a man sows shall he reap.’ The objections are overwhelming to the Scottish use of the word; first, because already in Scotland it is a barbar... ...hin so short a period were born 87 Thomas de Quincey subterraneously,* in Scottish mines, or in the English collieries of Cumberland, and were suppos... ...ches of this Pariah popu- lation, the work (title I forget) of Mr. Bald, a Scottish engi- neer, well known and esteemed in Edinburgh and Glasgow. He m... ... is rather sullen, on a winter evening, to the eye. On the other hand, the Scottish coal or most of it, being far poorer as to heat, throws out a very...

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... “O, that Robinson Crusoe must have been a great prophet!” To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient his tory and biography. So far from bei... ...tury was equal to a thousand years. The poet is he who can write some pure mythology to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instan... ...oirs to serve for a history,” which itself is but materials to serve for a mythology. How many volumes folio would the Life and Labors of Prometheus h... ...Him that made him? 51 HenryDavidThoreau One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,—the Christian fable. With what pains, and tea... ..., and tears, and blood these centuries have woven this and added it to the mythology of mankind. The new Prometheus. With what miraculous consent, and... ... In the Saxon poetry extant, in the earliest English, and the contemporary Scottish poetry, there is less to remind the reader of the rudeness and vig...

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...ated in the spring of 1646. And the brief explosions of insurrection or of Scottish invasion, which occurred on sub- sequent occasions, were all local... ...s as a surviving friend of Lord Essex, who was viewed as the martyr to his Scottish politics, there can be no doubt that Shakspeare had acquired the f... ...d brow” succeeding to another, until he comes to an eighth apparition of a Scottish king, “Who bears a glass Which shows him many more; and some he se... ...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 ... ...the level of the com- petition, but even Homer “with his tail on,” (as the Scottish Highlanders say of then chieftains when belted by their cer- emoni...

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...; and he felt it his duty to supplement this last – the trait is laughably Scottish – by a dialogue of his own composition, where his own private shad... ...me, and professes astonishment on principle. But he has no leaning towards mythology; avows his contempt for what he calls “unregenerate poetry;” and ... ...man would thank you: he would thank you to open the door. With what regret Scottish James I. be- thought him (in the next room perhaps to Charles) of ... ...5 Henry V . had two distinguished prisoners, French Charles of Orleans and Scottish James I., who whiled away the hours of their captivity with rhymin... ...ey Nostre Dame; now up the rivers, holding stealthy intercourse with other Scottish prisoners in the castle of Rouen; now out in the North Sea, raisin... ... to have grown on him. T o this last tract, a controversial onslaught on a Scottish Jesuit, he prefixed a prayer, not very pertinent to the matter in ...

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... thence, as I find is always the case, to the most ghastly romancing about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and everything national... ...y merits. ‘ENGLISH, THE: – a dull people, incapable of compre- hending the Scottish tongue. Their history is so intimately connected with that of Scot... ...e, pending your Centuries, etc., I do earnestly desire the best book about mythology (if it be German, so much the worse; send a bunctionary along wit... ...once I have studied and written these two vols., The Transformation of the Scottish Highlands and Scotland and the Union, I shall have a good ground t... ...markable virtues, I fear they have suffered many of the injustices, of the Scottish Highlanders. Ruedi has seen me this morning; he says the disease i... ... To which of these does B. J. refer? I guess it must be the history of the Scottish Church. I jest; for, of course, I know it must be a book I have ne...

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...rs go by, I hope that many of my countrymen may be asked to lecture in the Scottish universities, changing places with Scotsmen lecturing in the Unite... ...jective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only half-... ... these very Gifford lectures has been defended by some of your very ablest Scottish reli- gious philosophers.[52] [52] The Cairds, for example. In Edw... ...o previous model. In Chicago to-day we have the case of Dr. J. A. Dowie, a Scottish Baptist preacher, whose weekly “Leaves of Healing” were in the yea... ...cted with his conduct. It seems to me to be the chief glory of English and Scottish thinkers to have kept the organic connection in view. The guid- in... ...ose of this new logic. Let me quote in illustration some passages from the Scottish transcendentalist whom I have already named. “How are we to concei...

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...ench centime, a para from the Levant, a German heller, a Russian kopeck, a Scottish farthing, a single obolus or sestertius from the ancient world, or... ...this case, than if I had men- tioned sphinxes or griffins, whose existence mythology in a manner admits.” “As you are an Orientalist,” replied the oth...

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...d of the Roman emperors as low as Severus; besides a great deal of the Heathen Mythology, and all the Metals, Semi Metals, Planets, and distinguished ... ...o banners, cousin, to be ‘blown by the night wind of Heaven.’ No signs that a ‘Scottish monarch sleeps below.”’ “You forget, Fanny, how lately all thi...

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... there is no doubt of the loss of the leg. Well, footmen and courtiers and Scottish Highlanders, and the corps de ballet, draymen too, have legs, and ... ...Middleton, “is the observation of a student of the dictionary of classical mythology in the En- glish tongue.” “The Theatre is a matter of climate, si... ...upward, like a smoke-wreath. “Are you for Irish scenery?” “Irish, English, Scottish.” “All’s one so long as it’s beautiful: yes, you speak for me. Cos...

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...ral!’ As good had been the natural Presbyterian Kirk-bell, and six feet of Scottish earth, among the dust of thy loved ones.—Such world lay be- yond t... ...r pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense- fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hundred thousand Patriotic Men; and, ... ...r the chained Hero; and even for the chained Scoundrel, or Semi-scoundrel! Scottish John Knox, such World-Hero, as we know, sat once nevertheless pull...

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...elf from pecuniary embarrassments were unavailing. At the king’s death his Scottish loyalty caused him to side with those who opposed the Parliament. ... ... you, and you may take it as extracted out of the profoundest mysteries of mythology, that, when the giants had enterprised the waging of a war agains...