The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... facts regarding magic amongst the Greeks and Romans , we may be allowed to cast a critical glance backwards on the mythical ground of the same , in order to justify certain assertions made above , -namely , that the Grecian mythology is ...
... facts regarding magic amongst the Greeks and Romans , we may be allowed to cast a critical glance backwards on the mythical ground of the same , in order to justify certain assertions made above , -namely , that the Grecian mythology is ...
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... fact itself , and to fathom the origin of things there , we then , probably , shall seize the right clue and arrive ... facts ? In short , take the matter as we may , we cannot by all the known paths arrive at a satisfactory con- clusion ...
... fact itself , and to fathom the origin of things there , we then , probably , shall seize the right clue and arrive ... facts ? In short , take the matter as we may , we cannot by all the known paths arrive at a satisfactory con- clusion ...
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... fact , on views of natural science . The most ancient monuments of the East and of the Greeks point to deeper contemplations of nature . The ima- gination of the poets took out of these the material for their serious as well as their ...
... fact , on views of natural science . The most ancient monuments of the East and of the Greeks point to deeper contemplations of nature . The ima- gination of the poets took out of these the material for their serious as well as their ...
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... fact at the bottom of the general life of things , without any separation of the spiritual and the bodily . This mode of thinking everywhere acknowledges the living and the human from an inward impulse . Man is to himself the centre of ...
... fact at the bottom of the general life of things , without any separation of the spiritual and the bodily . This mode of thinking everywhere acknowledges the living and the human from an inward impulse . Man is to himself the centre of ...
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... facts of hieroglyphic signs , sagas , and legends . Thus the Mythos divides itself into two chief branches , into doctrine and tradition , which between them comprehend the convictions which , basing themselves on God , nature , and man ...
... facts of hieroglyphic signs , sagas , and legends . Thus the Mythos divides itself into two chief branches , into doctrine and tradition , which between them comprehend the convictions which , basing themselves on God , nature , and man ...
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