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... strange change of character is the sea swallowing up the Nile . - Osiris is the principle of good : Typhon is the genius of evil . This second solution is but a mythos of the Manichean doctrine . - A third unriddling is , that Osiris is ...
... strange change of character is the sea swallowing up the Nile . - Osiris is the principle of good : Typhon is the genius of evil . This second solution is but a mythos of the Manichean doctrine . - A third unriddling is , that Osiris is ...
Page 34
... strange opinion of Faber and others , that there may be compound etymons of different languages . If one language will not serve , the adduction of a second can but be most arbitrary and perplexing . And let him beware how he yields to ...
... strange opinion of Faber and others , that there may be compound etymons of different languages . If one language will not serve , the adduction of a second can but be most arbitrary and perplexing . And let him beware how he yields to ...
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... strange orgies now draws to its close . They were encouraged , as we have seen , by Julian . His chief oration is to the Mother of the gods . On his coins , in the fourth century , we mark the deified bull , the obverse having his head ...
... strange orgies now draws to its close . They were encouraged , as we have seen , by Julian . His chief oration is to the Mother of the gods . On his coins , in the fourth century , we mark the deified bull , the obverse having his head ...
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... strange is it that amidst scenes so melancholy , and corresponding moods so pensive , rude boisterous riot should prevail ! The sigh , the tear , are only decent : the matted hair , the rent garment , the lacerated flesh , might be ...
... strange is it that amidst scenes so melancholy , and corresponding moods so pensive , rude boisterous riot should prevail ! The sigh , the tear , are only decent : the matted hair , the rent garment , the lacerated flesh , might be ...
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... strange forgetfulness , or ignorance , which they betray who seem to think that Egypt was little noticed by the Greeks . Hesiod , in his Theogony , couples the Nile with the Alpheus ! No one can be the most slightly acquainted with the ...
... strange forgetfulness , or ignorance , which they betray who seem to think that Egypt was little noticed by the Greeks . Hesiod , in his Theogony , couples the Nile with the Alpheus ! No one can be the most slightly acquainted with the ...
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Æneid affected amidst ancient Anglo-Saxon appears Aristophanes Aristotle asked Bacchus beauty boast brain called character Cicero common confess course Craniologists Craniology death dialect divine earth Eleans Eleusis enquiry Euripides evil express Falstaff fame favour fear feel Games genius give Grecian Greece Greek head heart heaven Hercules Herodotus heroes honour human idea identity Iliad impression intellectual Iphitus Julius Cæsar Jupiter king language Latin living look Macbeth means ment mind moral mysteries nations nature never noble Olympic once organ original Osiris Palæstra passion Pausanias peculiar perfect perhaps person Phidias philosophy Pindar Plato Plutarch poet principle probably prove quæ Roman sacred Saxon says scarcely scene seems sense sentiment Shakspeare skull solemn song Sophocles soul sound speak species spirit strange supposed temple thee thing Thou thought Thucydides tion truth virtue word