The Coasts of Illusion: A Study of Travel TalesHarper & Brothers, 1924 - 410 pages |
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... face the day star of revelation . Ravens symbolized Jews who battened on the carrion of the Law . Sometimes vir- tues and vices were pictured as women riding animals or bear- ing animal devices - Humility on a panther , Chastity on a ...
... face the day star of revelation . Ravens symbolized Jews who battened on the carrion of the Law . Sometimes vir- tues and vices were pictured as women riding animals or bear- ing animal devices - Humility on a panther , Chastity on a ...
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... faces carefully veiled and the rest of their persons exposed , stags in chasubles ministering at the altar and wolves in the confessional giving absolution to lambs . " The ass , which the east had long celebrated for its devoted ...
... faces carefully veiled and the rest of their persons exposed , stags in chasubles ministering at the altar and wolves in the confessional giving absolution to lambs . " The ass , which the east had long celebrated for its devoted ...
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... faces toward the west wind as it blows , become impregnated by its breezes , and the foals thus conceived are remarkable for their fleetness ; but they never live beyond three years . 99 The Unicorn Best known animal of legend is the ...
... faces toward the west wind as it blows , become impregnated by its breezes , and the foals thus conceived are remarkable for their fleetness ; but they never live beyond three years . 99 The Unicorn Best known animal of legend is the ...
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... face was like a man's with pale blue eyes and human ears but with three rows of teeth . Its body was as big as the lion's and in color red like cinnabar . It had a tail like the scorpion's and more than a cubit long . The martikhora ...
... face was like a man's with pale blue eyes and human ears but with three rows of teeth . Its body was as big as the lion's and in color red like cinnabar . It had a tail like the scorpion's and more than a cubit long . The martikhora ...
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... face , body , hands , and feet . No creature can approach within the tether of the stem , for it seizes and kills all . As far as the stem stretches , it devours the herbage all around . Whoever is intent on capturing this animal must ...
... face , body , hands , and feet . No creature can approach within the tether of the stem , for it seizes and kills all . As far as the stem stretches , it devours the herbage all around . Whoever is intent on capturing this animal must ...
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Page 122 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 236 - 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.
Page 65 - And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them 'which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Page 228 - Roll'd to starboard, roll'd to larboard, when the surge was seething free, Where the wallowing monster spouted his foam- fountains in the sea.
Page 285 - They despised everything but virtue, not caring for their present state of life, and thinking lightly on the possession of gold, and other property, which seemed only a burden to them; neither were they intoxicated by luxury, nor did wealth deprive them of their selfcontrol; but they were sober, and saw clearly that all these goods are increased by virtuous friendship with one another, and that by excessive zeal for them and honor of them, the good of them is lost, and friendship perishes with them.
Page 228 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Page 297 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 65 - And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Page 63 - When, then, the Indians reach the place where the gold is, they fill their bags with the sand and ride away at their best speed ; the ants, however, scenting them, as the Persians say, rush forth in pursuit. Now, these animals are so swift, they declare, that there is nothing in the world like them ; if it were not, therefore, that the Indians get a start while the ants are mustering, not a single gold-gatherer could escape. During the flight the male camels, which are not so fleet as the females,...
Page 123 - Though we pursued the men we could not seize any of them ; but all fled from us, escaping over the precipices, and defending themselves with stones. Three women were however taken ; but they attacked their conductors with their teeth and hands, and could not be prevailed upon to accompany us. Having killed them, we flayed them, and brought their skins with us to Carthage.