Demonology and Devil-lore, Band 1H. Holt, 1881 |
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... give them pro- minence in a brief preface . It has been my purpose to follow the phantasms which man has conjured up from obstacles encountered in his progressive adaptation to the conditions of existence on his planet . These obstacles ...
... give them pro- minence in a brief preface . It has been my purpose to follow the phantasms which man has conjured up from obstacles encountered in his progressive adaptation to the conditions of existence on his planet . These obstacles ...
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... give light , could be a party to his own obscuration . We then looked with pity upon the ignorance of our ancestors , who had sung hymns to the storm - dragons , hoping to flatter them into quietness ; and we came by irresistible logic ...
... give light , could be a party to his own obscuration . We then looked with pity upon the ignorance of our ancestors , who had sung hymns to the storm - dragons , hoping to flatter them into quietness ; and we came by irresistible logic ...
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... pierces the Python . It required a much higher development of the moral sentiment to give rise to the conception of a devil . 1 As in the Bembine Tablet in the Bodleian Library . Nature 14 SHADOWS OF THE GODS . Only that intensest.
... pierces the Python . It required a much higher development of the moral sentiment to give rise to the conception of a devil . 1 As in the Bembine Tablet in the Bodleian Library . Nature 14 SHADOWS OF THE GODS . Only that intensest.
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... conversion has so far influenced the mind of the stone - worshipper that he will give to his sacred boulder the name of Prophet Mohammed .'- Tylor's ' Primitive Culture , ' vol . ii . p . 230 . ÒDIUM THEOLOGICUM . 25 pent ' ) in Persia ,
... conversion has so far influenced the mind of the stone - worshipper that he will give to his sacred boulder the name of Prophet Mohammed .'- Tylor's ' Primitive Culture , ' vol . ii . p . 230 . ÒDIUM THEOLOGICUM . 25 pent ' ) in Persia ,
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... , she watched over the industrious at their household work : she hovered near the cottage , perhaps to find there some weeping Cinderella and give her beauty for ashes . VOL . I. с CHAPTER V. CLASSIFICATION . - The obstructions of man -
... , she watched over the industrious at their household work : she hovered near the cottage , perhaps to find there some weeping Cinderella and give her beauty for ashes . VOL . I. с CHAPTER V. CLASSIFICATION . - The obstructions of man -
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