The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... connected with the most important religious opinions , and that it had , through that means , the greatest influence on art and poetry . According to our fundamental ideas on the essential characteristics , on the natural laws NATURAL ...
... connected with the most important religious opinions , and that it had , through that means , the greatest influence on art and poetry . According to our fundamental ideas on the essential characteristics , on the natural laws NATURAL ...
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... connected with them must consist of pleasure or pain , which would necessarily determine the objective attraction and re- pulsion of the spectator of them . That in young humanity the representations should be brilliant , and the ...
... connected with them must consist of pleasure or pain , which would necessarily determine the objective attraction and re- pulsion of the spectator of them . That in young humanity the representations should be brilliant , and the ...
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... connected with their conciseness , which is only expressive when it is poignant , when it bursts on us like a flash of lightning , and opens a view into a boundless distance . But only the most important things can be significant that ...
... connected with their conciseness , which is only expressive when it is poignant , when it bursts on us like a flash of lightning , and opens a view into a boundless distance . But only the most important things can be significant that ...
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... a knowledge of natural history . " The Samothracian mysteries are also connected with those of the East and of Egypt , and then again with the later Grecian and Roman . There is then a continuous , 10 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
... a knowledge of natural history . " The Samothracian mysteries are also connected with those of the East and of Egypt , and then again with the later Grecian and Roman . There is then a continuous , 10 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
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... connection , in Egypt , in the East , and in Greece . The Grecian songs upon medical science are ascribed to Orpheus , the ... connected with the most ancient systems of natural philosophy , as in Samothrace , and that heathenism has its ...
... connection , in Egypt , in the East , and in Greece . The Grecian songs upon medical science are ascribed to Orpheus , the ... connected with the most ancient systems of natural philosophy , as in Samothrace , and that heathenism has its ...
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