Journal, Volume 10Anthropological Society of Bombay., 1917 - Anthropology |
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Page xvii - Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.'
Page 602 - is he, For he shall be Master for life. " But if the Wife should drink of it first, God help the husband then !" The Stranger stoopt to the Well of St. Keyne, And drank of the water again. " You drank of the Well I warrant betimes ?" He to the Cornish-man said : But the Cornish-man smiled as the Stranger
Page 603 - And sheepishly shook his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my Wife in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to Church.
Page 261 - remember the words of Edmund Burke that " People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." History is
Page 515 - Iranian languages also are distant '' cousin tongues." As Prof. Max Muller says : " The Aryan languages together point to an earlier period of language, when the first ancestors of the Indians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Slavs, the Celts and the Germans, were living together within the same enclosures, nay, under the same roof.
Page 258 - howling through it like the voice of all the gods. It is Igdrasil — -The Tree of Existence. It is the past, the present and the future ; What was done, what is doing, what will be done ; the infinite conjugation of the verb to do. Considering how human
Page 258 - only, but from all men since the first man began to speak — I find no similitude so true as this of a tree. Beautiful, altogether beautiful and great. The " Machine of the Universe '' — alas, do but think of that in. contrast
Page 504 - Gibbon gives as follows his reasons for what he calls "the domestic claim " of the ancient Germans to " our attention and regard : " " The most civilized nations of modern Europe issued from the woods of Germany, and in the rude institutions of those barbarians we may still distinguish the original principles of our present laws and manners.'
Page 530 - respectively. An inconvenience produced by their liberty is, that they do not all assemble at a stated time, as if it were in obedience to a command ; but two or three days are lost in the delays of convening. When the number appears sufficient, they sit down armed. Silence is proclaimed by the priests,
Page 460 - the University of Cambridge in the 17th Century, is said to have determined even the hour of the first creation of man. He is represented to have said that " Man was created by the Trinity on October 23, 4004 BC, at nine O'clock in the morning.