Apollyon and the Reaction of the Slavonians: With a Review of the Political State of Europe Under the Action of the Contending PrinciplesPartridge and Oakey, 1847 - 240 oldal |
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217. oldal - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
131. oldal - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
195. oldal - IT is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea, and encounters a storm, to avoid a shipwreck. And thus, the legislator who meets some evils, half subdues them. In the...
25. oldal - ... of seasons, from the word pora, season,) and a fifth face on his breast ; Porevit, with five hands ; Bughevit, supposed god of war, with seven faces, seven swords at his side, and an eighth in his hand, &c. The Sclavonian deities usually have more than one head ; many have in some part of their body a human face, signifying the good principle, or a lion's head, denoting the evil principle. Many have also the figure of a beetle on them, which might denote an Egyptian origin. The Eastern Sclavonians...
16. oldal - ... Philip, and afterwards with Alexander the Great, who reduced them ; but soon after his death, they recovered their liberty. The Romans next invaded their territory, and called it the province of Illyria, comprehending Thrace and Dacia. According to Jornandes the Slavi were called Venedi, and Pliny says that they lived about the banks of the Vistula. Ptolemy places them on the Eastern shore of the Baltic, which he calls the Venedan Gulf, and Procopius says that
32. oldal - ... lyric poems, composed apparently in the thirteenth century. This collection must have been considerable, as the fragments contain only the twenty-sixth and the twenty-eighth chapters of the third book: the loss of the remainder is much to be lamented, as the fourteen songs which have been preserved surpass all similar productions of the middle ages in their poetical beauties, deep and tender feeling, and purity of language; the form in which they are composed is peculiar, and truly national....
18. oldal - In the ninth century the Slavonians occupied a large part of Eastern Europe. They extended from the Black Sea along the Danube and to the westward of that river on the shore of the Adriatic, occupying the antient Roman provinces of Pannonia, Dacia, Illyricum, and Dalmatia. The Slavonian settlements reached from the northern part of the Adriatic bordering on the Tyrol and Bavaria to...
24. oldal - Volos, god of flocks, Kolida, god of festivals, were worshipped by the eastern Slavonians. And the common people now in many parts of Poland and Russia call Christmas Kolida, as the festival of that god was celebrated on the 24th of December. The Slavonians of the Baltic acknowledged two principles, good and bad ; the former Biel Bog or white god, and the second Cherni Bog, the black god. Other deities were Porenut, who had four faces, and a fifth on his breast, supposed to be the god of the seasons...
iii. oldal - ... crystallises under certain circumstances, under other circumstances dissolves. It is the law of the state that has to be considered as the primary cause, acting on the events of centuries, not extent of territory, or numbers of ships and troops. The subjugation of Poland has changed the character, and will soon change the name of Russia — from Muscovy she rose to Russia, she will now ascend to Sclavonia. The deed is done, and neither threats nor acts will undo it. TURKISH OIL AND RUSSIAN TALLOW.*...
25. oldal - Porevit, represented with five hands ; Rughevit, supposed to be the god of war, whose idol had seven faces, seven swords suspended at his side, and an eighth in his hand. All those throe were in the island of Riigen, the last asylum of Slavonian idolatry.