The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... took out of these the material for their serious as well as their sportive images , and therefore the true poet is actually styled by Plato , the teacher of the present and the future ; whence the Pythian madness is of more value than ...
... took out of these the material for their serious as well as their sportive images , and therefore the true poet is actually styled by Plato , the teacher of the present and the future ; whence the Pythian madness is of more value than ...
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... took the chief place in the primeval times , when the conceptions , as it were , newly clothed , were em- bodied in the symbols expressive of the appearances result- ing from natural laws ; while in the after times , a poetry , fallen ...
... took the chief place in the primeval times , when the conceptions , as it were , newly clothed , were em- bodied in the symbols expressive of the appearances result- ing from natural laws ; while in the after times , a poetry , fallen ...
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... took rank as one of the prime sorceresses of antiquity . Medea , the niece of Circe , is not mentioned by Homer , who speaks only of her father Ætes . Strange and terrible as is her aid in the combat between Jason and the Hydra , she ...
... took rank as one of the prime sorceresses of antiquity . Medea , the niece of Circe , is not mentioned by Homer , who speaks only of her father Ætes . Strange and terrible as is her aid in the combat between Jason and the Hydra , she ...
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... took place , and the spiritual life of the German people struck its roots into the Greco - Roman element , and by its peculiar and powerful individual strength elaborated the manifold collected materials in lasting fermentation into a ...
... took place , and the spiritual life of the German people struck its roots into the Greco - Roman element , and by its peculiar and powerful individual strength elaborated the manifold collected materials in lasting fermentation into a ...
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... took place through symbols and through the elements of The true reconciliation of deeply - fallen humanity with God ; the release of the spirit from the bonds of nature ; the separation of the sensual from the intellectual , the animal ...
... took place through symbols and through the elements of The true reconciliation of deeply - fallen humanity with God ; the release of the spirit from the bonds of nature ; the separation of the sensual from the intellectual , the animal ...
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