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... Gorgon. His name is Perseus, and you may read his story, not in the Greek mythology, but in the memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini. Glancing from one of th... ...tle treasure-chamber of world-famous things. He had turned his back on the Venus de’ Medici, and with his arms resting on the rail-mug which protects ... ...a resume of all the other Madonnas of the Italian school—like that antique Venus who borrowed a nose from one great image and an ankle from another. I...

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...aid Madame de Bourke, unable to help smiling at her little daughter’s glib mythology, while going to the rescue of the embroidery silks, in which her ... ...e?’ murmured Arthur to himself. ‘And if we could meet Queen Dido, or maybe Venus her- self, ’twould be no bad thing!’ observed Lanty, who remem- bered...

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...eech have replaced the “heavenly angel” and Ossianic nomenclature; the old mythology of love is extinct, doomed to perish by modern dandyism. But for ... ...ter. “I will, upon my word! if Mlle. Michonneau will consent to sit as the Venus of Pere-Lachaise,” replied Vautrin. “There’s Poiret,” suggested Bianc... ...was in fact the notorious escaped con- vict. But it was the joke about the Venus of Pere-Lachaise that finally decided his fate. Mlle. Michonneau had ... ...c- ers. “A thousand crowns? Oh you Ninon in decay, Pompa- dour in tatters, Venus of the graveyard, I was worth more than that! If you had given me war...

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..., in the em- braces of dyspepsia, compiled his ponderous work on the Fairy Mythology of Europe. He had little to do with the Hope of Raynham beyond wh... ...ttle Jew usurer of Bond Court, Whitecross Gutters, for his introduction to Venus, I O U Five pounds, when I can pay. “Signed: Ripton Thom... ...ional exist- ence has brought poor Hippias. “No wonder. Ten years of Fairy Mythology! Could anyone hope to sleep in peace after that? As to your diges... ...tionary words, and the attractive halo of the mysterious vindictiveness of Venus surrounding him, this Adonis of the lower household was a 140 Ordeal... ...n?—Mr. Blaize intends her for his son a junction that every lover of fairy mythology must desire to see consummated. Young T om is heir to all the agr... ... certain that when she left the pretty shepherd she had greater vogue than Venus up aloft.” Brayder joined them. “See Mrs. Mount go by?” he said. “Oh,...

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...t the Amathusians call the grove in which they show her tomb, the grove of Venus Ariadne. Differing yet from this account, some of the Naxians write t... ...rch, dedi- cated to Mars, should be Romulus’s first, and April, named from Venus, or Aphrodite, his second month; in it they sac- rifice to Venus, and... ... at large upon the subject. The consul Varro, with a thin company, fled to Venusia; Aemilius Paulus, unable any longer to oppose the flight of his men... ...serves, we may not fitly apply that exclamation of Sophocles: O gods! what Venus, or what grace divine, Did here with human workmanship combine? For a... ... at a single moment upon us, really outdoes the hun- dred-handed giants of mythology?” And, doubtless, the rest of the Syracusans were but the body of... ...stive ovation. For the pipe is the badge of peace, and myrtle the plant of Venus, who more than the rest of the gods and goddesses abhors force and wa... ... discerning future events by dim and uncertain intima- tions. This was the mythology of the wisest of the Tuscan sages, who were thought to possess a ... ...in his land, seemed to restore to the world that community of goods, which mythology says existed in the reign of Saturn. Those who object to him that...

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...ust give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothin... ...d sufficiently draped in their own beauty. But as for Mr. Gibson’s colored Venuses 93 Hawthorne (stained, I believe, with tobacco juice), and all oth... ...e we to do? Must we adopt the costume of to-day, and carve, for example, a Venus in a hoop-petticoat?” “That would be a boulder, indeed!” rejoined Mir... ...rk, or rather frostwork: it was all a vapory exhalation out of the Grecian mythology, crystallizing on the dull window-panes of to-day. Gifted with a ... ...en heterogeneous models, meaning nothing by her, shall last as long as the Venus of the Capitol!—that his group of—no matter what, since it has no mor... ...churchmen, their great patrons, suggested most of their themes, and a dead mythology the rest. A quarter part, probably, of any large collection of pi... ...e remainder of the gallery comprises mythological sub- jects, such as nude Venuses, Ledas, Graces, and, in short, a general apotheosis of nudity, once...

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...ion in the public esteem, in a 3 The Lamplighter direct line to the heathen mythology; and hold that the history of Prometheus himself is but a pleas... ...g woman, that under any other circumstances Tom would have looked upon as a Venus; and besides her, there was a tall, thin, dismal faced young gentle...

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......................................................................... 142 VENUS ANNODOMINI.............................................................. ...ing to do things thoroughly, began with an essay on the Primitive Pig, the Mythology of the Pig, and the Dravidian Pig. Nafferton filed that informati... ...like Bronckhorst?” And my conundrum is the most unanswerable of the three. VENUS ANNODOMINI AND the years went on as the years must do; But our great ... ...Indian deity—an Anglo-In- dian deity, that is to say—and we called her the Venus Annodomini, to distinguish her from other Annodominis of the same eve... ... made their name and did their life’s work, and returned again to find the Venus Annodomini exactly as they had left her. She was as immutable as the ... ...y of riding, walking, dancing, picnicking and over-exertion generally, the Venus Annodomini did, and showed no sign of fatigue or trace of weariness. ...

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...glitter in the air. Divine Æneas brings the Dardan race, Anchises’ son, by Venus’ stolen embrace, Born in the shades of Ida’s secret grove; (A mortal ... ...el ensues; wherein Paris being overcome, he is snatched away in a cloud by Venus, and transported to his apartment. She then calls Helen from the wall... ... Thy gifts I praise; nor thou despise the charms With which a lover golden Venus arms; Soft moving speech, and pleasing outward show, No wish can gain... ...lmet, dragg’d the chief along. Then had his ruin crown’d Atrides’ joy, But Venus trembled for the prince of T roy: Unseen she came, and burst the gold... ...cret soul was moved; She scorn’d the champion, but the man she loved. Fair Venus’ neck, her eyes that sparkled fire, And breast, reveal’d the queen of... ...ce.”—Dryden’s Virgil, ii. 479. 485 Pope 205 The destinies ordain.—“In the mythology, also, of the Iliad, purely Pagan as it is, we discover one impor... ...his legend is one of the most pregnant and characteris- tic in the Grecian Mythology; it explains, according to the religious ideas familiar to the ol...

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...tting her fall as she clung to him. The palace was broken up, the wrath of Venus pursued her; Ceres and all the other deities chased her from their te... ...ank. 5 Yo n g e Only Pan had pity on her, and counselled her to submit to Venus, and do her bidding implicitly as the only hope of regaining her lost... ... do her bidding implicitly as the only hope of regaining her lost husband. Venus spurned her at first, and then made her a slave, set- ting her first ... ...inaccessible rocks; but this was procured for her by an eagle; and lastly, Venus, de- claring that her own beauty had been impaired by atten- dance on... ...owever, as she fell down overpowered, her husband, who had been shut up by Venus, came to the rescue, and finding himself unable to restore her, cried... ...represents the four elements personified by their goddesses, and Aurelia’s mythology, founded on Fenelon, was just sufficient to en- able her to recog...

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...ll the world again! I mean to produce a Juno that will make you tremble, a Venus that will make you swoon!” “So that when we come and see you,” said M... ...ving in their goddesses. I insist on believing, for myself, that the pagan mythology is not a fiction, and that Venus and Juno and Apollo and Mercury ... ...believing, for myself, that the pagan mythology is not a fiction, and that Venus and Juno and Apollo and Mercury used to come down in a cloud into thi... ...se, my dear!” cried Madame Grandoni. “Mr. Hudson may be a new Phidias, but Venus and Juno—that ‘s you and I—arrived to-day in a very dirty cab; and we... ...with his arms folded, looking at her as he would have done at the Medicean Venus. He never paid compliments, and Rowland, though he had not heard him ...

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.......................................................... 29 HOMER’S HYMN TO VENUS ........................................................................ ...YMN HOMER’S HYMN HOMER’S HYMN HOMER’S HYMN HOMER’S HYMN T T T T TO O O O O VENUS VENUS VENUS VENUS VENUS Published by Garnett, “Relics of Shelley”, 18... ...urn ancient Rhea bare. _40 but in return, In Venus Jove did soft desire awaken, That by her own enchantments overtaken, ... ... _45 For once amid the assembled Deities, The laughter-loving Venus from her eyes 31 Shelley Shot forth the light of a soft starlight sm... ...s among the mossy fountains Of the wide Ida’s many-folded mountains,— Whom Venus saw, and loved, and the love clung Like wasting fire her senses wild ... ...pendicular to the ecliptic. The strong evidence afforded by the history of mythology, and geological researches, that some event of this nature has ta... ... present argument which is as- sumed. The language spoken, however, by the mythology of nearly all religions seems to prove that at some distant pe- r... ...ter the important truths were forgotten, which this portion of the ancient mythology was intended to transmit, the drift of the fable seems to be this...

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...churchmen, their great patrons, suggested most of their themes, and a dead mythology the rest. A quarter part, probably, of any large collection of pi... ...e remainder of the gallery comprises mythological sub- jects, such as nude Venuses, Ledas, Graces, and, in short, a general apotheosis of nudity, once... ... seem to take up one task or the other w the disrobed woman whom they call Venus, or the type of highest and tenderest womanhood in the mother of thei... ...prompts, as the antique artist knew, and as all the world has seen, in the Venus de’ Medici. “What a discovery is here!” thought Kenyon to himself. “I... ... a living smile. It was either the prototype or a better repetition of the Venus of the T ribune. But those who have been dissatisfied with the small ...

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...ust give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothin... ...d sufficiently draped in their own beauty. But as for Mr. Gibson’s colored Venuses 93 Hawthorne (stained, I believe, with tobacco juice), and all oth... ...e we to do? Must we adopt the costume of to-day, and carve, for example, a Venus in a hoop-petticoat?” “That would be a boulder, indeed!” rejoined Mir... ...rk, or rather frostwork: it was all a vapory exhalation out of the Grecian mythology, crystallizing on the dull window-panes of to-day. Gifted with a ... ...en heterogeneous models, meaning nothing by her, shall last as long as the Venus of the Capitol!—that his group of—no matter what, since it has no mor...

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...etrable mystery— she bought into lotteries. Can that be the abyss of which mythology warns us under the fable of the Danaides and their cask? Madame D... ...n usual, or if he supped with his old comrade, Giroudeau, he followed some Venus of the slums, with brutal contempt for the whole sex. Otherwise regul... ...agnificent caryatide. What a model she would have been for one of Titians’ Venuses!” Adolphine and Madame Hochon thought he was talking Greek; but Aga... ... an idiot, now I find he has the sense to rejoice his eyes with a Titian’s Venus.” “If he were not an idiot,” said Monsieur Hochon, who had come in, “...

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... town like a belt of mud, haunts of the most shameless of the daughters of Venus, in which the periodical money of this people, as ferocious in their ... ...s, dragging himself with a dazed air along the boule- vard—the belt of his Venus, of his beloved city. What was his want? The sabre of the National Gu... ...le opium one can make you sleep. We 36 The Girl with the Golden Eyes know mythology and the fable of Argus.” Before entering the carriage, the golden...

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...itutions. T o their king, divine rights were paid; while for poetry, their mythology rivalled that of ancient Greece. Of Tahiti, earlier and more full... ...igators refitted their vessels in its harbours. Here the famous Transit of Venus was observed, in 1769. Here the memorable mutiny of the Bounty afterw... ...nce. After stretching across the bay, the barrier extends on toward Point Venus, in the district of Matavia, eight or nine miles distant. Here there ... ...y airing. Some- times, by the bye, they take horse, and ride down to Point Venus and back; a distance of several miles. At this place is settled the o... ... which assailed them. The supreme maj- esty of Oro, the great god of their mythology, was declared in the cocoa-nut log from which his image was rudel... ...laimed to be a sort of bye-blow of T ararroa, the Saturn of the Polynesian mythology, and cousin-german to inferior deities. His person was thrice hol...

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...ds of him and the wine-flask. There must be meanings to that effect in the Mythology, awaiting unravelment. For the subject opens to deeper than cella... ...a forest foli- age—rustle of silks and muslins, magic interweaving, or the mythology, if you prefer it. See, hear, smell, they are Juno, Venus, Hebe, ... ...ving, or the mythology, if you prefer it. See, hear, smell, they are Juno, Venus, Hebe, to you. We must have poetry with them; oth- erwise they are be... ...ion. Seeing him on his way, thus terribly armed, and knowing his in- tent, Venus, to shield a former favourite servant of Mars, conjured the most dive...

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...onscionable time upon her funeral pile; for who could think of Jupiter and Venus in the midst of all our preparations for the Consecration?’ ‘I am gla... ...rigin is not nearly so sublime as you would make it out. Keightley’s Fairy Mythology says he is only our old friend Robin Good- fellow, Milton’s lubbe...

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...ove and beauty. But she proves to be Pandemos, or the earthly and unworthy Venus; who, after disappointing his cherished dreams and hopes, deserts him... ...rs, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain arbitrary discretion... ...ame. 31. 31. 31. 31. 31. She had a boat, which some say Vulcan wrought For Venus, as the chariot of her star; _290 But i... ...dst thou have given For such a charm when Tithon became gray? Or how much, Venus, of thy silver heaven Wouldst thou have yielded, ere Proserpina ...

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...and then off with Julia, exactly like two Gods of the 107 George Meredith Mythology, Apollo and Mercury. ‘I often used to think they had the jolliest... ...dith like what I should have felt had I given Minerva the apple instead of Venus. ‘Oh!’ he commented, and stepped down to the road to meet her, beginn...

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... Were forced to make an odd sort! of apology, For Donna Inez dreaded the Mythology. Ovid ‘s a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon’s ... ...r as natural As sweetness to the flower, or salt to ocean, Her zone to Venus, or his bow to Cupid (But this last simile is trite and stupid). ... ...e good lessons Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus, Without whom Venus will not long attack us. While Venus fills the heart (without hea... ...lay there, But fix’d as marble’s unchanged aspect throws O’er the fair Venus, but for ever fair; O’er the Laocoon’s all eternal throes, An... ...ir loves In liquid lines mellifluously bland, And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves, They little think what mischief is in hand; ... ...head, until the ceremony ended. The lady rising up with such an air As Venus rose with from the wave, on them Bent like an antelope a Paphian ...

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...n a very proper light by the ingenious Abbe Bannier, in his preface to his Mythology, a work great erudition and of equal judgment. “It will be easy,”... ..., brought up the rear. Thus fable reports, that the fair Grimalkin, whom Venus, at the desire of a passionate lover, converted from a cat into a fin... ...ader. In this the antients had a great advantage over the moderns. Their mythology, which was at that time more firmly be lieved by the vulgar than...

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...en to a member under L20, and is respected enormously—like the lady of the Mythology, who was an intolerable Tartar of virtue, because her price was n... ...it, you know; the women hate it! A married blonde of five-and-twenty’s the Venus of them all. Mind you, I don’t forget that Mrs. Wardour-Devereux is a...

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...de its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Eu- rope, (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic art... ...close- ness to the faith of later ages. Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology. He is the friend of man; stands be- tween the unjust “justice” o... ...f *St. Augustine, Confessions, B. I. 59 Emerson its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics; and it would seem impossible for any fab... ...r and low. The old tragic Necessity, which lowers on the brows even of the Venuses and the Cupids of the antique, and furnishes the sole apology for t... ...ense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye. In the old mythology, mythologists observe, defects are ascribed to divine natures, as... ...nning, and too bad for blessing, it reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character. ‘I overheard Jove, one d...

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... “O, that Robinson Crusoe must have been a great prophet!” To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient his tory and biography. So far from bei... ...tury was equal to a thousand years. The poet is he who can write some pure mythology to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instan... ...oirs to serve for a history,” which itself is but materials to serve for a mythology. How many volumes folio would the Life and Labors of Prometheus h... ... yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no Sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thum oi phyle ’ousa ’ te, k edome... ...Him that made him? 51 HenryDavidThoreau One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,—the Christian fable. With what pains, and tea... ..., and tears, and blood these centuries have woven this and added it to the mythology of mankind. The new Prometheus. With what miraculous consent, and... ...is hand, cried for pain. Running as well as flying T o the beautiful Venus, I am killed, mother, said he, I am killed, and I die. A lit... ...I remember the history of that faint light in our firmament, which we call Venus, which ancient men re garded, and which most modern men still regard...

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... of breadth by the diaphragma, as was that woman consecrated to the Indian Venus whom the Tyanean phi- losopher did see between the river Hydaspes and... ...ap what shall be most distasteful to me: my cake will be dough, and for my Venus I shall have but some de- formed puppy: instead of serving them, I sh... ...urian tongue. For it is to be imagined that he is no way a debtor to them. Venus will be no more venerable, because she shall have lent nothing. The m... ...ve been already jerked and whirrited within the curtains of his sweetheart Venus. In confirmation whereof, amongst other relics and monu- ments of ant... ... you, and you may take it as extracted out of the profoundest mysteries of mythology, that, when the giants had enterprised the waging of a war agains... ...as he was. My wife possibly will be as comely and handsome as ever was his Venus, but not a whore like her, nor I a cuckold like him. The crook-legged...

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...e case where a learned antiquary unfolds historically the record of a vast mythology. Heaps of such cases, (both law and mythological records,) surviv... ...lities must have worked an extensive conformity to their own standard. The mythology sanctioned by the ritual of public worship, the features of moral... ...rship, the features of moral nature in the gods dis- tributed through that mythology, and sometimes commemo- rated by gleams in that ritual, domineere... ...phon) a destroying energy, the people will be gloomy; if (like the Paphian Venus) libidinous, the people will be voluptuously effeminate. When the god...

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...his liberty is the type of that spiritual freedom 3 At the spring equinox Venus is in the sign of the Pisces, which immediately precedes that of Arie... ...dy half spider, wretched 1 Lucifer. 2 Examples from classic and biblical mythology alternate. 3 Apollo, so called from his temple at Thymbra, not f...

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...this case, than if I had men- tioned sphinxes or griffins, whose existence mythology in a manner admits.” “As you are an Orientalist,” replied the oth... ... written on those Italian eyelids, on the splendid shoulders worthy of the Venus of Milo, on her features, in the darker shade of down above a somewha... ...s about to enter upon. The clock on the chimney- piece was surmounted by a Venus resting on her tortoise; a half-smoked cigar lay in her arms. Costly ...

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...e, pending your Centuries, etc., I do earnestly desire the best book about mythology (if it be German, so much the worse; send a bunctionary along wit... ... a trick of stopping; cathedral bell note; orna- mental dial; supported by Venus and the Graces; quite a summer-parlour piety. Of yours, since your la...

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...not human; he is a monster, an angel wanting wings. The angel of Christian mythology has nothing but a head. On earth, the righteous person is the suf... ...ghteous person is the sufficiently tire- some Grandison, for whom the very Venus of the Cross- words is sexless. Setting aside one or two commonplace ... ... the famous statue of the Nurse of Niobe in the Vatican is to the T ribune Venus. Mme. Cibot, portress of the house in the Rue de Normandie, was the p...

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...Middleton, “is the observation of a student of the dictionary of classical mythology in the En- glish tongue.” “The Theatre is a matter of climate, si... ...worthy host, sir, on that stipulation. Note the superi- ority of wine over Venus!—I may say, the magnanimity of wine; our jealousy turns on him that w... ...r her—of the paternal pat-back order of pity. She adored him, by decree of Venus; and the Goddess had not decreed that he should find conso- lation in...

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...schievous Sidney, ‘and the fairest——’ ‘Go to, Sidney. Were she fairer than Venus, with a king- dom to her dower, I would none of a woman without a blu... ...ly, completing, as Henry said, the 99 The Chaplet of Pearls galimatias of mythology, a pasteboard cloud was propelled on the stage, and disclosed the... ...e T urkish essence distilled from roses; yea, and the finest spirit of the Venus myrtle-tree, the secret known to the Roman dames of old, whereby they...

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...r- winian, post-Schopenhaurian philosophy; Wagner in terms of polytheistic mythology; and Ibsen in terms of mid-XIX century Parisian dramaturgy. Nothi... ...nter went—a fellow who would paint a hag of 70 with as much enjoyment as a Venus of 20. THE STATUE. I remember: he came to heaven. Rembrandt. THE DEVI...

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...orrowed from the Sept. V. of Psalm civ. 2. Vulg. sicut pellem. 5 Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn. 6 Gabriel; of the meaning of whose name the ... ... Muhammad derived his doctrines of the Genii from the Persian and In- dian mythology, and attempted to identify them with the 231 The Koran Satan and...

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...jective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only half-... ... equally unpleasant—the 479 William James whole prepared under the planet Venus if possible, but never under Mars or Saturn. Then, if a splinter of w...