The Unicorn: A Mythological InvestigationLongmans, Green and Company, 1881 - 97 من الصفحات |
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... various points are not links in a chain , the failure in any one of which is fatal , but items in a description . As , according to Prof. Ludwig Noiré , the dis- covery of the axe assured the triumph of the kingdom of man upon earth ...
... various points are not links in a chain , the failure in any one of which is fatal , but items in a description . As , according to Prof. Ludwig Noiré , the dis- covery of the axe assured the triumph of the kingdom of man upon earth ...
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... various phases of some of those re- markable legends , which , based upon a study of natural phenomena , exhibit the process whereby the greater part of mythology has come into existence . There we find the solar Gryphon , 1 the solar ...
... various phases of some of those re- markable legends , which , based upon a study of natural phenomena , exhibit the process whereby the greater part of mythology has come into existence . There we find the solar Gryphon , 1 the solar ...
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... various entries in the Exchequer Rolls relative to the building of Rothsay Castle , he was disposed to assign to the time of Robert II . or III . [ 1380-1400 ] . In 1486 or 1487 two gold coins were struck , value respectively 18s . and ...
... various entries in the Exchequer Rolls relative to the building of Rothsay Castle , he was disposed to assign to the time of Robert II . or III . [ 1380-1400 ] . In 1486 or 1487 two gold coins were struck , value respectively 18s . and ...
الصفحة 9
... various places , and ' the spiral tusk of the Narwhal was accustomed to be sold as the real horn of the unicorn ; and as an accredited part of that animal , forming [ a supposed ] direct proof of its existence , it used to fetch a very ...
... various places , and ' the spiral tusk of the Narwhal was accustomed to be sold as the real horn of the unicorn ; and as an accredited part of that animal , forming [ a supposed ] direct proof of its existence , it used to fetch a very ...
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... various representations of the Unicorn , is an opponent of the Lion , or answers generally to the mythical character of the mysterious creature . Aldrovandus , amongst his other monsters and curiosities , speaks of a unicornic animal ...
... various representations of the Unicorn , is an opponent of the Lion , or answers generally to the mythical character of the mysterious creature . Aldrovandus , amongst his other monsters and curiosities , speaks of a unicornic animal ...
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¹ Vide Akkadian amongst Ancient animal Apollôn appears archaic arms Aryan Assyrian Athamas Babylonian bright bull Bundahis called coins connected connexion creature crescent Crescent-moon Culte Cylinder darkness Dionysos divinity emblem Euripides eyes fore full moon Garmr goddess Gorgô Gorgon Grove Gryphon Guillim head heaven Hekatê Herakles Heraldry Hesiod horn Ibid Inô instances K. O. Müller Kamic Kepheus King kosmic order legs Lenormant Leopard Lion Lion-sun Luna lunar lunar phases Lyon Medousa Merodach Mimir Moon-god Mykênê myth Mythology night nocturnal origin Pausanias Perseus personage phase Phoenician Plutarch Prof Rawlinson reduplication remarks representation represented Rhinoceros Sacred Tree Sayce Schliemann Selênê Semitic Serpent shows Sir G. W. Cox solar subsec Sun and Moon Sun-god symbolical three-legged ass Tiamat tion Underworld Unicorn Unicorn-bull Unicorn-goat Vedic Vide G. D. M. Vide R. B. Jr Vide sec VIII whilst winged Yggdrasil
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الصفحة 91 - And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
الصفحة 48 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
الصفحة 71 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
الصفحة 85 - Like as a lyon whose imperiall powre A prowd rebellious unicorn defyes, T' avoide the rash assault and wrathful stowre Of his fiers foe, him to a tree applyes, And when him ronning in full course he spyes, He slips aside ; the whiles that furious beast His precious home, sought of his enimyes, Strikes in the stocke, ne thence can be releast, But to the mighty victor yields a bounteous feast.
الصفحة 85 - The friend of D'Ambois, before fierce L'Anou ; Which D'Ambois seeing, as I once did see In my young travels through Armenia, An angry unicorn in his full career Charge with too swift a foot a jeweller That...
الصفحة 62 - Regarding the three-legged ass they say, that it stands amid the wide-formed ocean, and its feet are three, eyes six, mouths nine, ears two, and horn one, body white, food spiritual, and it is righteous.
الصفحة 70 - Like as I die and rise to life again, so you also shall rise again when you die ; " but the hare went to men and said, " Like as I die, and do not rise again, so...
الصفحة 9 - Some have made doubt whether there be any such Beast, as this, or no. But the great esteeme of his Home (in many places to be seene) may take away that needelesse scruple.
الصفحة 44 - Ulphus's horn of ivory ; an inscription in Latin upon the horn states that Ulphus, prince of the western parts of Deira, originally gave it to the church of St. Peter, together with all his lands and revenues. Henry Lord Fairfax at last restored the horn to the church, when it had been lost or conveyed away. The dean and chapter decorated it anew, AD, 1675.