Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 1John Murray, 1891 - Civilization |
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Page 320 - many bleeding wounds, and shrouding himself in his cloak to die in darkness. Of Caesar, better than of Cassius his slayer, it might have been said in the language of sunmyth: '. . . 0 setting sun, As in thy red rays thou dost sink to-night, So in his red blood Cassius' day is set; The sun of Rome is set!
Page 477 - thought and reason, and passion, and sometimes even the limbs and figures of men, in order to bring them nearer to a resemblance with ourselves.' Auguste Comte has ventured to bring such a state of thought under terms of strict definition in his conception of the primary mental condition of mankind—a state of
Page 495 - from hence away are paste Every night and alle ; To Whinny-moor thou comes at laste, And Christe receive thy saule. If ever thou gave either hosen or shoon. Every night and alle ; Sit thee down and put them on, And Christe receive thy
Page 108 - lang in Zetland, to risk the saving of a drowning man ? Wot ye not, if you bring him to life again, he will be sure to do you some capital injury?' Were this inhuman thought noticed in this one district alone, it might be fancied to have had its rise in
Page 501 - that of the modern professor of theology. Its definition has remained from the first that of an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence. The theory of the soul is one principal part of a system of religious philosophy, which unites, in an unbroken line of mental connexion, the savage
Page 178 - Come uppe, Whitefoot, come uppe, Lightfoot, Come uppe, Jetty, rise and follow, Jetty, to the milking shed.' But I cannot offer a plausible guess at the origin of such calls as
Page 436 - when any one faints or dies, their spirit, it is said, may sometimes be brought back by calling after it; and occasionally the ludicrous scene is witnessed of a stout man lying at full length, and bawling out lustily for the return of his own soul.
Page 384 - infamy of tayles by theyr wrytten legendes of lyes, yet can they not well tell, where to bestowe them truely an Englyshman now cannot travayle in an other land, by way of marchandyse or any other honest occupyinge, but it is most contumeliously thrown in his tethe, that al Englishmen have tailes.
Page 23 - and development; and these principles prove to be /. •/,•' essentially rational, though working in a mental condition •"•/') of intense and inveterate ignorance. It is with a sense of attempting an investigation which bears very closely on the current theology of our own day, that I have set myself to