Demonology and Devil-lore, Volum 1Henry Holt, 1879 |
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Side iv
... sometimes swarmed and gibbered around me in a mad comedy which travestied their tragic sway over those who believed in their reality . Gargoyles extended their grin over the finest architecture , cor- nices coiled to serpents , the very ...
... sometimes swarmed and gibbered around me in a mad comedy which travestied their tragic sway over those who believed in their reality . Gargoyles extended their grin over the finest architecture , cor- nices coiled to serpents , the very ...
Side 2
... sometimes cast on sacrifices . The forms that peopled the celestial spaces may have been those of ancestors , kings , and great men , but anterior to all forms was the poetic enthusiasm which built heavenly mansions for them ; and the ...
... sometimes cast on sacrifices . The forms that peopled the celestial spaces may have been those of ancestors , kings , and great men , but anterior to all forms was the poetic enthusiasm which built heavenly mansions for them ; and the ...
Side 3
... sometimes leave to crawl in their neighbouring grounds . One day a negro from some distant region encountered one of these animals and killed it . The people learning that one of their gods had been slain , seized the stranger , and ...
... sometimes leave to crawl in their neighbouring grounds . One day a negro from some distant region encountered one of these animals and killed it . The people learning that one of their gods had been slain , seized the stranger , and ...
Side 24
... sometimes not susceptible of com- promise . The most powerful priesthood carried the day , and they used every ingenuity to degrade the gods of their opponents . Agathodemons were turned into kako- demons . The serpent , worshipped in ...
... sometimes not susceptible of com- promise . The most powerful priesthood carried the day , and they used every ingenuity to degrade the gods of their opponents . Agathodemons were turned into kako- demons . The serpent , worshipped in ...
Side 26
... Sometimes even after they have had to yield to the popular terminology , and call the old god a devil , they will find some reason for continuing the transmitted forms . It is probable that to this cause was originally due the religions ...
... Sometimes even after they have had to yield to the popular terminology , and call the old god a devil , they will find some reason for continuing the transmitted forms . It is probable that to this cause was originally due the religions ...
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ages Agni Ahriman Alcestis ancient angel animal Apophis appear ascribed Azazel Azru bear beautiful become belief burning called character Chimæra christian dark dead death deities Demonology demons desert devil devouring diseases divine dragon Drisa earth evil eyes fables fear fiery fire flames folklore giant goat goddess gods Gog and Magog haunted head heaven hell Hindu holy human hymns India Indra Jehovah killed king Lambton Worm legend light Max Müller means Moloch monster moon moral mountain myth mythology nature night origin passed Perun popular præternatural priests primitive probably race regions religion represented Rig-Veda rock Rudra sacred sacrifice Sanskrit Saranyu Satan says seen serpent slain snake soul spirits stone story superstition temples terror thee thou tion told tree tribes Typhon Vedic venom Vritra werewolf wild witch wolf word worm worship Zeus
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Side 13 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
Side 231 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Side 343 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Side 346 - Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Side 334 - He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Side 187 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat...
Side 225 - Where the sea-snakes coil and twine, Dry their mail and bask in the brine; Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye?
Side 226 - in. the world they say. Come,' I said, and we rose through the surf in the bay. We went up the beach, by the sandy down Where the sea-stocks bloom, to the white-wall'd town.
Side 169 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Side 259 - who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage ? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us ; he will subdue our iniquities : and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.