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Page 13
... rising again to man according to the lives they led ; of birds that were light - minded souls ; of oysters suffering in banishment the penalty of utter ignorance . Pythagoras is made to illustrate in his own person his doctrine of ...
... rising again to man according to the lives they led ; of birds that were light - minded souls ; of oysters suffering in banishment the penalty of utter ignorance . Pythagoras is made to illustrate in his own person his doctrine of ...
Page 16
... rising and falling in classic and medieval Europe , and lingering at last in the modern world as an intellectual crotchet , of little account but to the ethnographer who notes it down as an item of 1 St. Clair and Brophy , ' Bulgaria ...
... rising and falling in classic and medieval Europe , and lingering at last in the modern world as an intellectual crotchet , of little account but to the ethnographer who notes it down as an item of 1 St. Clair and Brophy , ' Bulgaria ...
Page 23
... rising flood drives the shivering ghosts to the beach , and Nangananga dashes them in pieces on the great black stone , as one shatters rotten firewood.2 Such , again , were the tales told by the Guinea negroes of the life or death of ...
... rising flood drives the shivering ghosts to the beach , and Nangananga dashes them in pieces on the great black stone , as one shatters rotten firewood.2 Such , again , were the tales told by the Guinea negroes of the life or death of ...
Page 64
... rising from their beds , compelled by some unknown power they go down to the beach , and there they see boats , not their own but others , lying ready but empty of men . Going on board and taking the oars , they find that by the burden ...
... rising from their beds , compelled by some unknown power they go down to the beach , and there they see boats , not their own but others , lying ready but empty of men . Going on board and taking the oars , they find that by the burden ...
Page 72
... rising to heaven in the East he disappeared , having promised to be the helper of his people on earth , and to transport them , when they died , from the top of a sacred tree into another life , where they shall find their kindred and ...
... rising to heaven in the East he disappeared , having promised to be the helper of his people on earth , and to transport them , when they died , from the top of a sacred tree into another life , where they shall find their kindred and ...
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