| 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...and no diseases. But, when he began to sacrifice victims on the altar of superstition, to pursue the goat and the deer, and, by the pernicious invention...and premature death, were let loose upon the world. Sucli is clearly the correct interpretation of the fable of Prometheus, whirh is a symbolical portraiture... | |
| 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 1012
...exchange by civilized man of roots for cooked food, and his consequent diminution of stature, " as the correct interpretation of the fable of Prometheus,...surrendered his liver to the vulture of disease." (P.71.) Luckily there is a counter-check to such depressing philosophy in the cheery views of our host... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 186
...and no diseases. But, when he began to sacrifice victims on the altar of superstition, to pursue the goat and the deer, and, by the pernicious invention...interpretation of the fable of Prometheus, which is the symbolical portraiture of that disastrous epoch, when man first applied fire to culinary purposes,... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 188
...and no diseases. But, when he began to sacrifice victims on the altar of superstition, to pursue the goat and the deer, and, by the pernicious invention...interpretation of the fable of Prometheus, which is the symbolical portraiture of that disastrous epoch, when man first applied fire to culinary purposes,... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...and no diseases. But, when he began to sacrifice victims on the altar of superstition, to pursue the goat and the deer, and, by the pernicious invention...interpretation of the fable of Prometheus, which is the symbolical portraiture of that disastrous epoch, when man first applied fire to culinary purposes,... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 278
...and no diseases. But, when he began to sacrifice victims on the altar of superstition, to pursue the goat and the deer, and, by the pernicious invention...interpretation of the fable of Prometheus, which is the symbolical portraiture of that disastrous epoch, when man first applied fire to culinary purposes,... | |
| Alexander Martin Freeman - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...chapter. When man, he says, " began to sacrifice victims on the altar of superstition, to pursue the goat and the deer, and by the pernicious invention...and premature death were let loose upon the world " ; and adds a particularly Newtonian detail : " From that period the stature of mankind has been in... | |
| 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 862
...and no diseases. But, when he began to sacrifice victims on the altar of superstition, to pursue the goat and the deer, and, by the pernicious invention...interpretation of the fable of Prometheus, which is the symbolical portraiture of that disastrous epoch, when man first applied fire to culinary purposes,... | |
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