Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge, Volumen 151851 |
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... mountains were launched against the Titans , who were crushed , overwhelmed , and thrust down to Tartarus . In that gloomy dungeon were they and Cronos for ever imprisoned , with the three Hecatoncheires to keep guard over the walls of ...
... mountains were launched against the Titans , who were crushed , overwhelmed , and thrust down to Tartarus . In that gloomy dungeon were they and Cronos for ever imprisoned , with the three Hecatoncheires to keep guard over the walls of ...
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... mountain , the Greeks with their easy uninvestigating spirit , placed in India , because their early oriental mythology told them that adaptations Mērū was a " mountain of Indra , " and the name of the deity was very Mythology ...
... mountain , the Greeks with their easy uninvestigating spirit , placed in India , because their early oriental mythology told them that adaptations Mērū was a " mountain of Indra , " and the name of the deity was very Mythology ...
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... Mountains and trees are torn up by the roots , and hurled at the deity . The Hecatoncheires use the same tremendous weapons ... mountain . She is a female deity . of emigration Indian epic . towards through Thrace into northern 32 INDIAN ...
... Mountains and trees are torn up by the roots , and hurled at the deity . The Hecatoncheires use the same tremendous weapons ... mountain . She is a female deity . of emigration Indian epic . towards through Thrace into northern 32 INDIAN ...
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... mountain in this part of Hellas , they would naturally style the " Great " mountain , or " Lumbo ; " it is called by the modern Greeks E'lymbo ; by their ancestors it was named O'lumpo - s . It is not a little singular , that “ Lumbŭ ...
... mountain in this part of Hellas , they would naturally style the " Great " mountain , or " Lumbo ; " it is called by the modern Greeks E'lymbo ; by their ancestors it was named O'lumpo - s . It is not a little singular , that “ Lumbŭ ...
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Encyclopaedia. Indian mountains emigrants in Greece and Ethiopia . " 2 that of India . Mount Tomarus is clearly the " Someru ” of the Indian epic , renamed by another form of Mērū , the sacred mountain , again to be prominently ...
Encyclopaedia. Indian mountains emigrants in Greece and Ethiopia . " 2 that of India . Mount Tomarus is clearly the " Someru ” of the Indian epic , renamed by another form of Mērū , the sacred mountain , again to be prominently ...
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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.