The Heathen Religion in Its Popular and Symbolical DevelopmentJ.P. Jewett and Company, 1856 - 372 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abode according adored Aesir agathodaimon Ahriman altars Amun ancient animals antiquity appears appellation attributes Bacchus beast bird body Brahma called celebrated celestial Ceres character contemplated cosmic creation creed darkness death deities demiurgus denominated denotes Dionysus distinguished divine doctrine earth Egypt Egyptian emblem evil existence faith father festival fire Freyja Ginnunga-gap goddess gods Greece Greeks hand head heathen heaven Hence Hercules Herodotus hieroglyphical Hindoo holy honor Horus human idea illustrious important inhabitants Isis Jupiter light mankind Mithras moon mortals mountains mundane Muspellheim mysteries myth mythology nature Nile Njörd Norse observed Odin oracles origin Ormuzd Osiris Persians personified Plutarch priests primeval principle profound race rank regarded reign religion religious represented Romans sacred sacrifice Scandinavian season snake solar solemn soul spirit Supreme symbol taurus temple Teutonic things Thor tion tree truth Typhon universe vernal Vesta votaries worship Yggdrasill Ymir Zeus zodiacal
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 110 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Seite 88 - That, chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Seite 110 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Seite xi - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness ; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath shewed it unto them.
Seite xi - Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his Eternal Power and God-head, so that they are without excuse...
Seite 131 - What makes all physical or moral ill ? There deviates nature, and here wanders will. God sends not ill ; if rightly understood, Or partial ill is universal good, Or change admits, or nature lets it fall, Short, and but rare, till man improv'd it all.
Seite 88 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent : Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part. As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns. As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills. he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Seite 261 - The front or river wall extends on a right line north and south six hundred and twenty-four feet, and it is from sixty to ninety feet in height. It is made of cut stones, from three to six feet in length, and a foot and a half in breadth. In many places the stones have been thrown down by bushes growing out of the crevices, and in one place...
Seite 2 - This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas ; — that' great deep sea of azure that swims overhead ; the winds sweeping through it ; the black cloud fashioning itself together, now pouring out fire, now hail and rain : what is it ? Ay, what ? At bottom we do not yet know ; we can never know at all. It is not by our superior insight that we escape the difficulty ; it is by our superior levity, our inattention, our want of insight.
Seite 15 - At this, the sire cmbrac'd the maid again, So sadly lost, so lately sought in vain. Then near the altar of the darting king, Dispos'd in rank their hecatomb they bring ; With water purify their hands, and take The sacred offering of the salted cake ; While thus with arms devoutly rais'd in air, And solemn voice, the priest directs his prayer.