Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed ReligionsJ. Masters, 1882 - 328 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Ahriman Ahura-Mazda altar Amravati Avesta believe blood body Brahmans Buddha Buddhist called ceremonies charm chief Chinese CHRIST Christianity Church circle cloth Confucius creed Crown 8vo Daksha dance death deities devotion disciples Divine dress earth evil existence eyes faith Fcap feet fire Gemara gods hand head heaven Hindu Hiouen-thsang holy human idols India Kamsa kill king Krishna light living lord Maori Master Max Müller meditation ment mill-handle mind Mishna moral nature never night offerings ophite origin Ostiaks Papeiha Parsees passed prayer priests race religion religious rites round SACKVILLE COLLEGE sacred sacrifice Sanchi says Second Edition seems SERMONS serpent Sherard Osborn skin snake soul spirit stone strange superstition supposed Supreme Talmud teaching temple thou tion Topes Translated tree tribes Vedas victim village Virabhadra woman women words worship Yasna Zarathustra Zendavesta
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 315 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Seite 263 - From the red stone of the quarry With his hand he broke a fragment, Moulded it into a pipe-head, Shaped and fashioned it with figures ; From the margin of the river Took a long reed for a pipe-stem, With its dark green leaves upon it ; Filled the pipe with...
Seite 72 - A man i' the clouds, and hear him speak to thee ? Wouldst thou be in a dream, and yet not sleep ? Or wouldst thou in a moment laugh and weep ? Wouldst thou lose thyself and catch no harm, And find thyself again without a charm ? Wouldst read thyself, and read thou know'st not what, And yet know whether thou art blest or not, By reading the same lines ? O then come hither, And lay my book, thy head and heart together.
Seite 71 - Wouldst thou divert thyself from melancholy ? Wouldst thou be pleasant, yet be far from folly ? Wouldst thou read riddles and their explanation ? Or else be drowned in thy contemplation ? Dost thou love picking meat ? Or wouldst thou see A man i...
Seite 12 - He who by His might looked even over the water-clouds, the clouds which gave strength and Lit the sacrifice, He who is God above all gods; — Who is the god to whom we shall offer our sacrifice?
Seite 262 - Indian nations together, and standing on the precipice of the red pipe stone rock, broke from its wall a piece, and made a huge pipe by turning it in his hand, which he smoked over them, and to the North, the South, the East, and the West, and told them that this stone was red — that it was their flesh — that they must use it for their pipes of peace — that it belonged to them all, and that the war-club and scalping knife must not be raised on its ground.
Seite 155 - In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round...
Seite 313 - It is probable that few even of the chiefs were disposed to leave so rich a prize for the sake of King James. Dundee himself might at that moment have been unable to persuade his followers to quit the heaps of spoil, and to complete the great work of the day; and Dundee was no more.
Seite 309 - As the sun, Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events. And in today already walks tomorrow.
Seite 99 - They served up salmon, venison, and wild boars By hundreds, and by dozens, and by scores. Hogsheads of honey, kilderkins of mustard, Muttons, and fatted beeves, and bacon swine ; Herons and bitterns, peacock, swan, and bustard, Teal, mallard, pigeons, widgeons, and in fine...