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... strength , given already in our introduction , there can be no existing revelations for one special language , for poetry and religion , as isolated . The human soul is an indivisible unity of spiritual powers . The sense , which in ...
... strength , given already in our introduction , there can be no existing revelations for one special language , for poetry and religion , as isolated . The human soul is an indivisible unity of spiritual powers . The sense , which in ...
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... strength of personification . The elements of nature spoke to man , and she became tangi- ble to him through joy and pain ; she expressed to him her sensations in speaking images . That mode of expression brings many characteristics ...
... strength of personification . The elements of nature spoke to man , and she became tangi- ble to him through joy and pain ; she expressed to him her sensations in speaking images . That mode of expression brings many characteristics ...
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... strength of a beast , the peculiar form or properties of a natural body , and the explanation of these things , propagated itself , according to Pausanias , as a myth . Still more occasion was furnished by the secret operation of the ...
... strength of a beast , the peculiar form or properties of a natural body , and the explanation of these things , propagated itself , according to Pausanias , as a myth . Still more occasion was furnished by the secret operation of the ...
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... . O. S. 124 ) " that the ancient forms of the gods could not have arisen from certain ideas , as that of Minerva for wisdom , of Hercules for strength , etc .; but that they are grounded in nature , 18 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
... . O. S. 124 ) " that the ancient forms of the gods could not have arisen from certain ideas , as that of Minerva for wisdom , of Hercules for strength , etc .; but that they are grounded in nature , 18 HISTORY OF MAGIC .
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... strength , possessed of a sinewy neck and strong chest . He built a house for himself , which was imperishable , and therein he had his workshop , with his anvil and his bellows , which without hands worked at his command ( Il . xviii ...
... strength , possessed of a sinewy neck and strong chest . He built a house for himself , which was imperishable , and therein he had his workshop , with his anvil and his bellows , which without hands worked at his command ( Il . xviii ...
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