The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-historic Study[C.] Scribner's [Sons], 1885 - 240 Seiten |
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agglutinative languages ancestors ancient Egyptians animals appears Aryan Aryan races Asia Baldur belonged Beowulf bones bronze called cattle cave Chaldæans changes chapter character chief Chinese civilization common connected custom dead death deity descendants divinities Dyâus earliest early earth Egypt Europe existence express fact Freyja Freyr Gaul German goddess gods gradually Greek Helheim Heracles hero Hieratic human idea implements Indra inhabitants invention Jötun king land language Latin legend letters lived Loki meaning meaningless words mind myth mythology nations natural nomadic Odin origin Osiris patriarchal perhaps personification Phoenicians picture pre-historic primitive probably quipus race religion remains Romans root Sanskrit seems Semitic separate signs sort soul sound speak stage stone age story sun-god Teutonic things Thorr thou thought Thrym trace tribes tumuli Turanian Urvasi village woolly rhinoceros worship writing Zeus
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Seite 75 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the...
Seite 148 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Seite 160 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. [Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun ; Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That, when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours, that did seem to strangle him.
Seite 76 - And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.
Seite 173 - The door in the mountain side shut fast. Did I say, all? No! One was lame, And could not dance the whole of the way; And in after years, if you would blame His sadness, he was used to say— "It's dull in our town since my playmates left!
Seite 173 - Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, Little hands clapping, and little tongues chattering . And, like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is scattering, Out came the children running : All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
Seite 142 - ... messengers throughout the world to beg everything to weep in order that Baldur might be delivered from Hel. All things very willingly complied with this request, both men and every other living being, as well as earths, and stones, and trees, and metals, just as we have all seen these things weep when they are brought from a cold place into a hot one.