Selected Essays on Language, Mythology and Religion: In 2 VolsLongmans, Green, and Company, 1881 |
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Selected Essays on Language, Mythology and Religion, Volum 1 Friedrich Max Müller Visualització completa - 1881 |
Selected Essays on Language, Mythology and Religion, Volum 1 Friedrich Max Müller Visualització completa - 1881 |
Selected Essays on Language, Mythology and Religion, Volum 1 Friedrich Max Müller Visualització completa - 1881 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina xiii - What is now called the Christian religion has existed among the ancients, and was not absent from the beginning of the human race, until Christ came in the flesh; from which time the true religion, which existed already, began to be called Christian.
Pàgina 14 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Pàgina 520 - Father, the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Pàgina xii - An intuition of God, a sense of human weakness and dependence, a belief in a Divine government of the world, a distinction between good and evil, and a hope of a better life, — these are some of the radical elements of all religions.
Pàgina 344 - To us, abstract nouns are so familiar that we can hardly appreciate the difficulty which men experienced in forming them. We can scarcely imagine a language without abstract nouns. There are, however, dialects spoken at the present day which have no abstract nouns, and the more we go back in the history of languages, the smaller we find the number of these useful expressions. As far as language is concerned, an abstract word is nothing but an adjective raised into a substantive ; but in thought the...
Pàgina 583 - So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go. Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Pàgina 362 - It is the essential character of a true myth that it should no longer be intelligible by a reference to the spoken language. The plastic character of ancient language, which we have traced in the formation of nouns and verbs, is not sufficient to explain how a myth could have lost its expressive power or its life and consciousness.
Pàgina 2 - Whenever we can trace back a religion to its first beginnings, we find it free from many of the blemishes that offend us in its later phases.
Pàgina 590 - He will then proceed to argue that this is he who gives the season and the years, and is the guardian of all that is in the visible world, and in a certain way the cause of all things which he and his fellows have been accustomed to behold ? Clearly, he said, he would first see the sun and then reason about him.
Pàgina 290 - Disp. v. 37. enmity — yet evermore tending, under a divine control, towards the fulfilment of that inscrutable purpose for which the world was created, and man placed in it, bearing the image of God.