Elements of Mythology: Or, Classical Fables of the Greeks and RomansParrish, Dunning, & Mears, 1851 - 279 من الصفحات |
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... carry on any manufacture . For want of such accommodations we should be in the lowest state of savage life . The ancient Greeks sometimes imputed the art of VULCAN . 41 forging metals to Prometheus . Perhaps Prome 40 MYTHOLOGY .
... carry on any manufacture . For want of such accommodations we should be in the lowest state of savage life . The ancient Greeks sometimes imputed the art of VULCAN . 41 forging metals to Prometheus . Perhaps Prome 40 MYTHOLOGY .
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... carried destruction before them . The ancients some . times marked the spot where they supposed a thun- derbolt had fallen , enclosed the place , and held it in reverence . Who was Vulcan , and of what use is the manufacture of metals ...
... carried destruction before them . The ancients some . times marked the spot where they supposed a thun- derbolt had fallen , enclosed the place , and held it in reverence . Who was Vulcan , and of what use is the manufacture of metals ...
الصفحة 45
... carried to heaven . There Jupiter endowed her with life ; Venus gave her beauty ; Pallas , wisdom , and Juno , riches ; Mercury taught her eloquence , and Apollo , music . With these accomplishments Pandora was a per- fect woman , and ...
... carried to heaven . There Jupiter endowed her with life ; Venus gave her beauty ; Pallas , wisdom , and Juno , riches ; Mercury taught her eloquence , and Apollo , music . With these accomplishments Pandora was a per- fect woman , and ...
الصفحة 53
... carried him from earth to heaven , where he poured out nectar for Jupiter . Who was Hebe ? Were the heathen gods supposed to be spirits ? How did the prophet Elijah deride this false notion of God ? Does Homer represent the gods as ...
... carried him from earth to heaven , where he poured out nectar for Jupiter . Who was Hebe ? Were the heathen gods supposed to be spirits ? How did the prophet Elijah deride this false notion of God ? Does Homer represent the gods as ...
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... years of age . The young persons were of both sexes- -the boys clad in plain garments , and the girls dressed with simplicity and carrying baskets of cakes and flowers , as offerings to the goddess . These were of honour-
... years of age . The young persons were of both sexes- -the boys clad in plain garments , and the girls dressed with simplicity and carrying baskets of cakes and flowers , as offerings to the goddess . These were of honour-
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Achilles adorned afterwards Agamemnon Ajax altar ancient Apollo Athenians Athens Attica Bacchus beautiful called Castor and Pollux celebrated Ceres chariot Clytemnestra consecrated Crete Cupid Cyclops daughter death deities Diana divine earth Edipus Egypt Egyptian Eleusis Eneas fable father festivals fire flowers goddess gods golden Greece Greeks hand head heathens heaven Hebrews Hector hell Hercules heroes Hindus holy honour horses Iliad immortal infernal regions instructed Iphigenia island Janus Jason Juno Jupiter killed king labour Lares and Penates LENOX mankind married Menelaus Mercury Mexicans Minerva mountains mythology nations Neptune Nereides Odin offered oracle Orestes Orpheus Parthenon Penates persons Philoctetes Phocis Pluto poets Priam priests prince Prometheus prophet Proserpine Proteus PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR punish Quet-zal-cot religion represented Romans Rome sacred sacrifices Saturn says Scylla signifies sometimes supposed Syrian temple thee Theseus Troy Ulysses Venus Vulcan wife wisdom worship YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY young
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الصفحة 50 - I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth; While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
الصفحة 71 - Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods which are made with hands; so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
الصفحة 50 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there : when He set a compass upon the face of the depth : when He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep : when He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment; when He appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by Him as one brought up with Him; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before him: rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth; and my delights were with the sons...
الصفحة 167 - First Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol.
الصفحة 95 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
الصفحة 167 - In his own temple, on the grunsel-edge, Where he fell flat, and shamed his worshippers : Dagon his name, sea-monster, upward man And downward fish ; yet had his temple high Reared in Azotus, dreaded through the coast Of Palestine, in Gath, and Ascalon, And Accaron, and Gaza's frontier bounds.
الصفحة 48 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
الصفحة 167 - Astarte, queen of Heaven, with crescent horns ; To whose bright image nightly by the moon Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs...
الصفحة 37 - In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements...
الصفحة 50 - The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.