Credulities Past and Present: Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets and Talismans, Rings, Word and Letter Divination, Numbers, Trials, Exorcising and Blessing of Animals, Birds, Eggs, and LuckChatto and Windus, 1880 - 560 Seiten |
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... Fathers of the Church battled manfully against some of the corroding prejudices of their time . St. Chrysostom ( of " the Golden Mouth " ) observes in one of his homilies , " The people suspect everything , and are more in bondage than ...
... Fathers of the Church battled manfully against some of the corroding prejudices of their time . St. Chrysostom ( of " the Golden Mouth " ) observes in one of his homilies , " The people suspect everything , and are more in bondage than ...
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... fathers have not lied , " say the peasants of La Vendée , " there are birds that know the way of the upper sea , and may no doubt carry a message to the blessed in Paradise . " * In the days of Sir Francis Drake the vulgar people ...
... fathers have not lied , " say the peasants of La Vendée , " there are birds that know the way of the upper sea , and may no doubt carry a message to the blessed in Paradise . " * In the days of Sir Francis Drake the vulgar people ...
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... father , grandfather , and father die ? ' ' Where , but in their beds ! ' An I were as you , then , I would never come to bed ! " Addison , in the Spectator ( No. 27 ) , THE SEA AND SEAMEN . 7.
... father , grandfather , and father die ? ' ' Where , but in their beds ! ' An I were as you , then , I would never come to bed ! " Addison , in the Spectator ( No. 27 ) , THE SEA AND SEAMEN . 7.
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... fathers . entering the port , was a favourite heathen emblem of the close of life . But the Christian idea , and its elevation from individual to universal or catholic humanity , is derived directly from the Bible . " Without doubt ...
... fathers . entering the port , was a favourite heathen emblem of the close of life . But the Christian idea , and its elevation from individual to universal or catholic humanity , is derived directly from the Bible . " Without doubt ...
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... fathers , For the guide to those realms of the blessed - is Death ! " The green isles of the ocean , however , were supposed to be the abode of the souls of virtuous Druids , who could not enter the Christian heaven , but were permitted ...
... fathers , For the guide to those realms of the blessed - is Death ! " The green isles of the ocean , however , were supposed to be the abode of the souls of virtuous Druids , who could not enter the Christian heaven , but were permitted ...
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Seite 85 - Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning!
Seite 99 - And he fixed his eye on the darker speck. He felt the cheering power of Spring ; It made him whistle, it made him sing ; His heart was mirthful to excess, But the rover's mirth was wickedness. His eye was on the Inchcape float ; Quoth he, " My men, put out the boat, And row me to the Inchcape rock, And I'll plague the abbot of Aberbrothok.
Seite 280 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast : for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Seite 404 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Seite 99 - No STIR in the air, no stir in the sea: The ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell. The...
Seite 99 - On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. When the Rock was hid by the surge's swell, The mariners heard the warning Bell ; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
Seite 420 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased.
Seite 284 - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Seite 100 - On the deck the Rover takes his stand, So dark it is they see no land. Quoth Sir Ralph, " It will be lighter soon, For there is the dawn of the rising moon.
Seite 8 - Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters, Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.