Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge, Volumen 151851 |
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... latter . Let us survey for a moment , in juxtaposition , the legend of Mythology and the legend of Language , and the result will be a metaphysical proof of their identity . We will take " Man , " a compound of " Mind and Strength ...
... latter . Let us survey for a moment , in juxtaposition , the legend of Mythology and the legend of Language , and the result will be a metaphysical proof of their identity . We will take " Man , " a compound of " Mind and Strength ...
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... latter compound of Minerva's title : — The Greeks styled a man . Again , by another Greek custom . The Indians The Persians ( a male ) Strength they called • • With the Romans it was metaphorically Whence , without change · a'nēr nar ...
... latter compound of Minerva's title : — The Greeks styled a man . Again , by another Greek custom . The Indians The Persians ( a male ) Strength they called • • With the Romans it was metaphorically Whence , without change · a'nēr nar ...
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... latter any Greek might be initiated . They were celebrated annually in the month Anthesterion ; and the initiated , who were styled Mystæ , had Order of the Mysteries . 3 to undergo the probation of a year previous to an admission to ...
... latter any Greek might be initiated . They were celebrated annually in the month Anthesterion ; and the initiated , who were styled Mystæ , had Order of the Mysteries . 3 to undergo the probation of a year previous to an admission to ...
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... latter distinction women also were admitted . The prize of victory was simple - a wreath of pine - leaves , subsequently of ivy , and again a garland of pine graced the brows of the conqueror , who not only became the object of ...
... latter distinction women also were admitted . The prize of victory was simple - a wreath of pine - leaves , subsequently of ivy , and again a garland of pine graced the brows of the conqueror , who not only became the object of ...
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... latter people resigned the honorary post to Philip of Macedon . This festival gradually declined till the time of the Emperor Hadrian , soon after which it appears to have been discontinued . ? 1 Paus . ii . 15 , § 2. 2 Plut . Philop ...
... latter people resigned the honorary post to Philip of Macedon . This festival gradually declined till the time of the Emperor Hadrian , soon after which it appears to have been discontinued . ? 1 Paus . ii . 15 , § 2. 2 Plut . Philop ...
Términos y frases comunes
according Alcibiades allies ancient appears arms army arrived assistance Athenians Athens attack Attica authority battle beauty became body brought called carried cause celebrated character chief Cimon citizens command complete conduct continued death defeated directed domestic early effect enemy engaged favour feeling fleet force friends gave give gods Grecian Greece Greeks hand head Homer honour hundred immediately important influence Italy king Lacedæmonians land latter length Lycurgus means measure Messenia mind nature noble observed occasion offered original party passed Pericles period Persian person Plutarch poet political popular possession present probably proposed received remained respecting sailed says sent ships side slaves soon Spartans spirit success taken talents temple Themistocles took troops victory walls whole Xerxes Zeus
Pasajes populares
Página 155 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Página 477 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Página 445 - For those purposes they think some part of the wealth of the country is as usefully employed, as it can be in fomenting the luxury of individuals. It is the public ornament. It is the public consolation. It nourishes the public hope. The poorest man finds his own importance and dignity in it...
Página 375 - Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams.
Página 116 - De'iphobus in the under-world — if we are asked whether there was not really some such historical Trojan war as this, our answer must be, that as the possibility of it cannot be denied, so neither can the reality of it be affirmed.
Página 113 - Then shalt thou mourn the' affront thy madness gave, Forced to deplore, when impotent to save : Then rage in bitterness of soul, to know This act has made the bravest Greek thy foe.?
Página 148 - Spartan children were not in that manner, under tutors purchased or hired with money, nor were the parents at liberty to educate them as they pleased : but as soon as they were seven years old, Lycurgus ordered them to be enrolled in companies, where they were all kept under the same order and discipline, and had their exercises and recreations in common.
Página 365 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Página 375 - Fill the wide circle of the eternal year : Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime : The fields are florid with unfading prime ; From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
Página 34 - The sire of gods and all the ethereal train, On the warm limits of the farthest main, Now mix with mortals, nor disdain to grace The feasts of Ethiopia's blameless race ; Twelve days the powers indulge the genial rite, Returning with the twelfth revolving light. Then will I mount the brazen dome, and move 560 The high tribunal of immortal Jove.