Northern antiquities: or, a description of the manners, customs, religion and laws of the ancient Danes, and other northern nations; including those of our own Saxon ancestors. ... In two volumes. Translated from Mons. Mallet's ...T. Carnan and Company, 1770 |
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الصفحة xxxvi
... themselves that whatever they are ignorant of is useless , and that no ad- ditions can be made to the stock of know- ledge already acquired . But this is a stock which diminishes whenever it ceases to in- crease . The same reason which ...
... themselves that whatever they are ignorant of is useless , and that no ad- ditions can be made to the stock of know- ledge already acquired . But this is a stock which diminishes whenever it ceases to in- crease . The same reason which ...
الصفحة xxxvii
... themselves . An excess and luxury ( as it were ) of knowledge , cannot be too great , and is never a doubtful sign of the flourishing state of science . The more it occafions new researches , the more it confirms and matures the ...
... themselves . An excess and luxury ( as it were ) of knowledge , cannot be too great , and is never a doubtful sign of the flourishing state of science . The more it occafions new researches , the more it confirms and matures the ...
الصفحة 11
... themselves so much trou- ble to guess at what they thought concerning the creation of the world , and should at length conclude that they could know no- thing about it , but what was very uncertain ; when at the same time , they had at ...
... themselves so much trou- ble to guess at what they thought concerning the creation of the world , and should at length conclude that they could know no- thing about it , but what was very uncertain ; when at the same time , they had at ...
الصفحة 12
... themselves . This is confirmed by Cæ- far and others , ' concern- ing the Gauls ; and needs no other proof ' here ' than the mysterious and significant name which is given to every thing . So much for the HELL of the Celtic and Gothic ...
... themselves . This is confirmed by Cæ- far and others , ' concern- ing the Gauls ; and needs no other proof ' here ' than the mysterious and significant name which is given to every thing . So much for the HELL of the Celtic and Gothic ...
الصفحة 16
... themselves , in flow- ing at so vast distance from the fouth , whilst the course of their streams carried them still farther from it , froze at last in their currents , and swell- ed into huge heaps of ice , which communicated a ...
... themselves , in flow- ing at so vast distance from the fouth , whilst the course of their streams carried them still farther from it , froze at last in their currents , and swell- ed into huge heaps of ice , which communicated a ...
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الصفحة 21 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
الصفحة 177 - And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years...
الصفحة 176 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
الصفحة 82 - He requires less sleep than a bird, and sees by night, as well as by day, a hundred miles around him. So acute is his ear that no sound escapes him, for he can even hear the grass growing on the earth, and the wool on a sheep's back.
الصفحة 26 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
الصفحة 217 - I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds ; for the moment I sing it my chains fall in pieces, and I walk forth at liberty.
الصفحة 177 - And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought, and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
الصفحة 124 - Loke then said, that his art consisted in eating more than any other man in the world, and that he would challenge any one at that kind of combat. ' It must, indeed, be owned,' replied the king, ' that you are not wanting in dexterity, if you are able to perform what you promise.
الصفحة 86 - Loke, say that she there possesses large apartments, strongly built, and fenced with gates of iron. Her hall is Grief; her table, Famine; Hunger, her knife; Delay, her servant; Faintness. her porch; Sickness and Pain, her bed; and her tent, Cursing and Howling.
الصفحة 217 - Another bard in like tone says, — " I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat ; one of them is called the ' Helper ' ; it will help thee at thy need in sickness, grief, and all adversities. I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds : when I sing it, my chains fall in pieces and I walk forth at liberty.