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... society of the manhood of their tribe , and considered as entitled to use the privileges of that more mature class is common to many primitive nations . The custom , also , of marking the transition from the one state to the other , by ...
... society of the manhood of their tribe , and considered as entitled to use the privileges of that more mature class is common to many primitive nations . The custom , also , of marking the transition from the one state to the other , by ...
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... society . The chaste and temperate habits of these youth , and the opinion that it was dishonourable to hold sexual intercourse until the twentieth year was attained , was in the highest degree favourable not only to the morals and ...
... society . The chaste and temperate habits of these youth , and the opinion that it was dishonourable to hold sexual intercourse until the twentieth year was attained , was in the highest degree favourable not only to the morals and ...
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... labours and the mistress of his household . The * Taciti Germania . B matron maintained that rank in society which love had assigned BALEFUL INFLUENCE OF INDULGENCE - GOTHIC ANCESTORS . II ship of the VAGA VENUS in early youth. Wherever ...
... labours and the mistress of his household . The * Taciti Germania . B matron maintained that rank in society which love had assigned BALEFUL INFLUENCE OF INDULGENCE - GOTHIC ANCESTORS . II ship of the VAGA VENUS in early youth. Wherever ...
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... society , which the sex occupies when its conduct is estimable , and from which it as certainly declines in ages or climates prone to luxurious indulgence . The super- intendence of the domestic affairs was assigned to the German women ...
... society , which the sex occupies when its conduct is estimable , and from which it as certainly declines in ages or climates prone to luxurious indulgence . The super- intendence of the domestic affairs was assigned to the German women ...
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... society , were brought with them from their native forests , and had existence long before the chivalrous institutions in which they made so remarkable a feature . They easily became amalgamated in a system so well fitted to adopt ...
... society , were brought with them from their native forests , and had existence long before the chivalrous institutions in which they made so remarkable a feature . They easily became amalgamated in a system so well fitted to adopt ...
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Page 272 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either : black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 271 - This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never heard of one another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.
Page 301 - Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
Page 202 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
Page 272 - It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, ""Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 272 - What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of. calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
Page 201 - Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder: Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 205 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Page 167 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 182 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.