History of the Names of Men, Nations, and Places in Their Connection with the Progress of Civilization, 1-2. kötetJ.R. Smith, 1864 |
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Abridgment according adopted Æneid Amazons amongst ancient Annales des Voyages Annius Arimaspi Armenia Arrian Ases Asia Bactria banks belonged Belus Berosus Boun-Dehesch Cæsar called Caucasus Celts centuries Chahan de Cirbied Chaldean Chemesenuus chief custom Cyclops deity derived dialect Diodorus divinity emblem existence feeling French frequently Gaul given gods Greece Greeks hence Herodotus Hindu Hindustan Hist honour Hyperboreans Ibid inhabitants inscription instance Issedones Italy Janus Jornandes Jupiter king Klaproth land language Latin lived Loda means Mémoires mentioned monuments mountain names of places national name native neighbouring Ninus Nouvelles Annales Odin origin Ormuzd Ossian Paris Pausanias Pehlv'i Pelasgi period Persians Plin Pliny Pouqueville priests probably proper names reign religion religious remarks river Romans Sabaism sacred Sarmatians says Scythians Semiramis similar Sogdiana Solinus Suidas surname Teutonic tion town traced translation tribe victory Vishn'u warriors word worship writers Zend Zend-Avesta Zoroaster
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237. oldal - ... gather and brew on its summit. This almost perpetual assembling of clouds was long attributed by the superstitious to the unquiet spirit still hovering round the sunken body, which, when disturbed by any intruder, especially by the casting of stones into the lake, revenged itself by sending storms and darkness and hail on the surrounding district. So prevalent was the belief in this superstition, even down to times comparatively recent, that the government of Lucerne forbade the ascent of the...
110. oldal - One of these is a gryphon, a fabulous creature, with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. The...
237. oldal - The mountain, in consequence, labours under a very bad reputation. From its position as an outlier, or advanced guard of the chain of the Alps, it collects all the clouds which float over the plains from the W. and N. ; and it is remarked that almost all the storms which burst upon the lake of Lucerne gather and brew on its summit. This almost perpetual assembling of clouds was long attributed by the superstitious to the unquiet spirit still hovering round the sunken body, which, when...
236. oldal - Alpnachmaybe reached in 3 hours. According to a wild tradition of considerable antiquity, this mountain derives its name from Pilate, the wicked governor of Judaea, who, having been banished to Gaul by Tiberius, wandered about among the mountains, stricken by conscience, until he ended his miserable existence by throwing himself into a lake on the top of the Pilatus. The mountain, in consequence, labours under a very bad reputation. From its position as...
68. oldal - Ac sacram resonare viam mugitibus, ante Delubrum Romae ; colitur nam sanguine et ipsa More deae, nomenque loci, ceu numen, habetur. Atque Urbis, Venerisque pari se culmine tollunt Templa, simul geminis adolentur thura deabus.
237. oldal - ... source of all this terror, turns out, from recent investigation, to be beyond the limits of canton Lucerne, and on the opposite or the E. side of the Tomlishorn ; so that the Town Council had no jurisdiction over that part of the mountain which belongs to Alpnach. It is rather a pond than a lake, is dried up the greater part of the year, and reduced to a heap of snow, which being melted in the height of summer, furnishes water to the herds upon the mountain, which resort to it to slake their...
17. oldal - Deus verus est et si Deus dederit. Vulgi iste naturalis sermo est, an Christiani confitentis oratio ? Et qui Jovem principem volunt, falluntur in nomine sed de una potestate consentiunt.
81. oldal - Geographiques dans les Pays Situes entre La Mer Noire et La Mer Caspienne...
302. oldal - At no other time has the condition of imperial Rome, as it seems to me, been more pitiable. The whole world, from the rising of the sun to its setting, subdued by her arms, rendered obedience to her; at home there was peace and an abundance of wealth, which mortal men deem the chiefest of blessings.