Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1863Scribner's Sons, 1864 - 622 pages |
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Page 427
... mythology . Trace the modern system of Hindu mythology back to its earliest form , and there will then be some = 1 Sir W. Jones , On the Gods of Greece , Italy , and India . ( Works , vol . i . p . 229. ) He compares Janus with Gaṇeśa ...
... mythology . Trace the modern system of Hindu mythology back to its earliest form , and there will then be some = 1 Sir W. Jones , On the Gods of Greece , Italy , and India . ( Works , vol . i . p . 229. ) He compares Janus with Gaṇeśa ...
Page 432
... mythology of the ancient nations of the world . How mythology arises , necessarily and naturally , I tried to explain in my former Lectures , and we saw that , as an affection or disorder of lan- guage , mythology may infect every part ...
... mythology of the ancient nations of the world . How mythology arises , necessarily and naturally , I tried to explain in my former Lectures , and we saw that , as an affection or disorder of lan- guage , mythology may infect every part ...
Page 615
... mythology and phi- losophy , 408 . protests of the Greek poets , 408 . origin of Greek mythology , 411 . ethical interpretation of their origin , 411 . physical interpretation , 412 . allegorical interpretation , 412 . Aristotle's ...
... mythology and phi- losophy , 408 . protests of the Greek poets , 408 . origin of Greek mythology , 411 . ethical interpretation of their origin , 411 . physical interpretation , 412 . allegorical interpretation , 412 . Aristotle's ...
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