The Coasts of Illusion: A Study of Travel TalesHarper & Brothers, 1924 - 410 pages |
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... wild capes curve , But tell us , Polo , whom did you serve ? " " I served , " said Marco , " the Khan of Khans . His edict runs with the caravans As far as the east is from the west . The Turk and the Hindu hold his charters , He sways ...
... wild capes curve , But tell us , Polo , whom did you serve ? " " I served , " said Marco , " the Khan of Khans . His edict runs with the caravans As far as the east is from the west . The Turk and the Hindu hold his charters , He sways ...
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... wild beasts , serpents , and dragons " I trow that one hundred thousand Men of Arms might not pass the Deserts safely . " However , Marco Polo passed them safely , and gives one of his terse descriptions of the tree " called the tree of ...
... wild beasts , serpents , and dragons " I trow that one hundred thousand Men of Arms might not pass the Deserts safely . " However , Marco Polo passed them safely , and gives one of his terse descriptions of the tree " called the tree of ...
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... wild goose , the bear , or the batrachian . In Mediterranean countries it is conceded that swallows migrate . In England and Germany , according to one eighteenth - century observer , they " retire into clefts and holes in rocks , and ...
... wild goose , the bear , or the batrachian . In Mediterranean countries it is conceded that swallows migrate . In England and Germany , according to one eighteenth - century observer , they " retire into clefts and holes in rocks , and ...
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... Wild Geese About wild geese a still more fantastic belief obtained up to four centuries ago , when the Dutch discovered Spitzbergen . It was thought that goslings grew upon trees in the form of nuts . The nuts fell into the sea and the ...
... Wild Geese About wild geese a still more fantastic belief obtained up to four centuries ago , when the Dutch discovered Spitzbergen . It was thought that goslings grew upon trees in the form of nuts . The nuts fell into the sea and the ...
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... wild goose . " It looks like " little crooked feathers squeezed together " and is merely a " living sea insect . " While the legend was credited it was used to con- firm the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception . Animal Politics Fable ...
... wild goose . " It looks like " little crooked feathers squeezed together " and is merely a " living sea insect . " While the legend was credited it was used to con- firm the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception . Animal Politics Fable ...
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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.