The History of Magic, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... speaking not of man in Paradise , but of fallen human nature : and the circumstances of art must first be attended to . The original representations must , therefore , have certainly been images of natural objects , and the feelings ...
... speaking not of man in Paradise , but of fallen human nature : and the circumstances of art must first be attended to . The original representations must , therefore , have certainly been images of natural objects , and the feelings ...
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... back upon him . The perspicuity and figurativeness of writing and of speaking , of thinking and inventing , which prevailed in antiquity , is not to be looked upon as an arbitrary one , 6 HISTORY OF MAGIC . Symbolism.
... back upon him . The perspicuity and figurativeness of writing and of speaking , of thinking and inventing , which prevailed in antiquity , is not to be looked upon as an arbitrary one , 6 HISTORY OF MAGIC . Symbolism.
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... speaking images . That mode of expression brings many characteristics into the focus of a single phrase , which she at once imprints upon the soul , and completes the intuition at a blow . The essential characteristics of symbolism are ...
... speaking images . That mode of expression brings many characteristics into the focus of a single phrase , which she at once imprints upon the soul , and completes the intuition at a blow . The essential characteristics of symbolism are ...
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... speaking of divine things ; " that is , of the mysteries , out of which the people's religion first proceeded . Herodotus , Pythagoras , Empedocles , Orpheus , Thales , Parmenides , & c . travelled into Egypt and the East , in order ...
... speaking of divine things ; " that is , of the mysteries , out of which the people's religion first proceeded . Herodotus , Pythagoras , Empedocles , Orpheus , Thales , Parmenides , & c . travelled into Egypt and the East , in order ...
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... speak further of these magnetic rings of the old mysteries , and here only add Schweigger's remarks , that the editions of Lucretius , Lambertin , and Faber , ascribe to these Samothracian rings a secret power of averting anything ...
... speak further of these magnetic rings of the old mysteries , and here only add Schweigger's remarks , that the editions of Lucretius , Lambertin , and Faber , ascribe to these Samothracian rings a secret power of averting anything ...
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